Innovation Agents in the Public Sector: Applying Champion and Promotor Theory to Explore Innovation in the Australian Public Service

dc.contributor.authorBankins, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorDeness, Bonnie
dc.contributor.authorKriz, Anton
dc.contributor.authorMolloy, Courtney
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T22:45:32Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2022-07-31T08:19:44Z
dc.description.abstractInnovation 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).en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0313-6647en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/299687
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_AU
dc.rights© 2016 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Public Administrationen_AU
dc.subjectinnovation championsen_AU
dc.subjectinnovation promotorsen_AU
dc.subjectAustralian Public Serviceen_AU
dc.subjectpublic sector innovationen_AU
dc.subjectorganisational poweren_AU
dc.titleInnovation Agents in the Public Sector: Applying Champion and Promotor Theory to Explore Innovation in the Australian Public Serviceen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage137en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage122en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBankins, Sarah, University of Newcastleen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDeness, Bonnie, Newcastle Business Schoolen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKriz, Anton, College of Business and Economics, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMolloy, Courtney, University of Newcastleen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1048343@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKriz, Anton, u1048343en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor350705 - Innovation managementen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4868915xPUB230en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume76en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8500.12198en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4868915en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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