- Title
- Innovation agents in the public sector: applying champion and promotor theory to explore innovation in the Australian public service
- Creator
- Bankins, Sarah; Denness, Bonnie; Kriz, Anton; Molloy, Courtney
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Public Administration Vol. 76, Issue 1, p. 122-137
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12198
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Innovation is critical to organisational success and is a process steered, and potentially thwarted, by individuals. However, despite the importance of public sector innovation given the complexity of policy issues faced and the sector's specific contextual features, our understanding of innovation processes in government requires expansion. This study, using in-depth case analyses of three Australian Public Service agencies, focuses on understanding the ‘human component’ of the innovation process by drawing on both innovation champion and promotor theories to explore, through the lens of organisational power, how multiple human agents progress public sector innovations. The results highlight the key, and often tandem, roles of individuals at multiple organisational levels who work to inspire and motivate others to progress an innovation (champions) and those with specific power bases who help overcome organisational barriers to innovation (promotors).
- Subject
- innovation champions; innovation promotors; Australian Public Service; public sector innovation; organisational power
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1352327
- Identifier
- uon:30854
- Identifier
- ISSN:0313-6647
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the above article which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12198. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
- Language
- eng
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