Capacities of Public Sector Organisations for delivering missions
conference paper
This paper looks at building dynamic capabilities of public sector organizations (PSOs), with a specific focus on exploring the link between mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIP) and the discussion around change in public administration. As MOIP move into implementation, public sector agents increasingly face practical questions of how to develop transformative dynamic capabilities and how to initiate related internal organizational change processes. From the point of view of organization science, dynamic capabilities are rooted in the culture of an organization and are thus difficult to tackle directly. Therefore, organizational change theory suggests focusing on organizational routines as a proxy. Such changes in practices, incentive schemes and processes are expected to trigger change in behavior and attitudes, and as a consequence also to build new individual and organizational capabilities (Jackwerth-Rice et al. 2023).
This paper focuses on reporting workshop results. It introduces academic concepts which serve to structure discussions very briefly in each section, and then turns to the workshop insights, which build on experiences from policy practice and empirical research. Thus, this paper should not be seen as an academic contribution but rather aims to contribute to the ongoing deabtes among practitioners and experts involved in the implementation of missions.
This paper focuses on reporting workshop results. It introduces academic concepts which serve to structure discussions very briefly in each section, and then turns to the workshop insights, which build on experiences from policy practice and empirical research. Thus, this paper should not be seen as an academic contribution but rather aims to contribute to the ongoing deabtes among practitioners and experts involved in the implementation of missions.
TNO Identifier
1023400
Source title
Paper prepared on behalf of the Austrian Mission Facility for the OECD Conference “Mission forward: Forging new frontiers in mission-oriented innovation policies” Vienna, 28/29 October 2024
Pages
1-13