Changing the nature of governance arrangements comprises one element in the public service reform programme. New governance forms include arm's-length agencies, multi-organisational partnerships, hybrids and company structures. In theory, changed governance arrangements offer benefits in terms...

For a firm to succeed over the long term it needs to master two diametrically opposed qualities, adaptability and alignment - an attribute that is sometimes referred to as ambidexterity. The trouble is, it's very difficult to strike a good balance between the two. Focus too much on alignment and...

This paper considers how ideas from evolutionary theory and the neo-Schumpeterian tradition can be fruitfully combined with ideas from Herbert Simon and the Carnegie tradition on decomposability and cognitive limits. Rather than focusing on any one individual issue, this paper outlines a...