Using a combination of institutional and dilemma theory, this article maps the core dilemmas underlying the transformation of three public healthcare organizations into municipal enterprises. The results concerning the expectations and outcomes of the processes of change show that identified...

This paper argues that the ‘New Public Management’ paradigm for public management theory and practice that has prevailed for the last thirty years is both flawed in theory and has failed in practice. We argue for an alternative to this paradigm that is rooted with the New Public Governance...

Venture financing through social networks has become a global phenomenon. The processes and drivers of crowdfunding require careful study to identify similarities and distinctions from traditional venture finance. The demonstration of project legitimacy is especially interesting because online...

<title>Abstract</title> Commenting upon strands of post-new public management (NPM) debate, including Lapsley (2009) and Osborne (2010a) the article argues that as local public service organizations enter the <italic>age of austerity,</italic> performance driven by innovation and learning, will be an important feature of any...

Standards and best practice play a profound role in innovation processes. Whilst all best practices are contextually defined, they must also reference external standards and change processes. Thus, the relationship between an innovation and accepted standards is an important feature of...

In the ten years since Cohen and Levinthal's seminal paper on absorptive capacity significant changes have occurred in the types and forms of commercial knowledge, networking organisational forms and the direction of innovation and the technological regime. This paper uses Molina's...

The adoption of telematics is proceeding at a painfully slow pace in public administrations and health authorities. This paper tells the story of the emergence and benefits of a telematic-based system in the Scottish health service: telemedicine in Edinburgh and Lothian community maternity care....