The blind spots of collaborative innovation

In discussing some of the core claims of collaborative innovation, this article uses the notion of ‘blind spots’ in a double meaning. On the one hand, it points at some blind spots in the debate on collaborative innovation, i.e. potential weaknesses, risks, and unintended effects of public sector innovation strategies resting on principles of collaborative innovation. Second, the paper considers collaborative innovation as a counter-strategy against blind spots and attention biases of public organizations. Drawing on this perspective helps to critically discuss some of the key assumptions supporting the promise of collaborative innovation to deliver benefits critical for public governance.     

协同发展背景下的公共管理创新模式初探

在当前社会发展的新形势下,公共管理面临一系列的问题,需要相关管理人员将该项管理工作与经济发展衔接在一起,明确公共管理创新与经济发展之间的关联性,并针对公共管理创新实践的现状进行综合分析,采取强有力的管理措施,强化公共管理的实效性,提升公共管理的整体水平与效率,以期让公共管理创新更好地协助经济发展。论文针对协同发展背景下的公共管理创新模式展开论述。     

In Search of Collaborative Public Management

Abstract

This paper describes how managers from disparate organizations collaborated to implement a crime programme through the mechanism of a multi-layered crime partnership. The case is analysed using three theoretical models: collaborative public management (CPM), new public management (NPM) and public administration (PA). A case study research strategy was adopted with eighteen managers from the partnership being interviewed and ten partnership meetings being observed, to enhance understanding of management practice under partnership. This paper provides evidence for CPM, a model of management suited to deliver on the shared outcomes required by government from the varied organizations involved in crime programmes.     

Public Governance and School Performance

Abstract

According to the New Public Governance paradigm, this paper analyses the institutional and organizational conditions that can lead to an improvement in student learning (a typical co-produced outcome) by acting on the promotion of genuine collaborative relationships. The distinctive features of Italian distributed governance and the challenges for school management are discussed by examining TIMSS and INVALSI data. The results show that collaborative public management supports schools in improving student learning, confirming the research hypothesis for primary schools (IV grade) and schools that operate in socially and economically poor contexts.     

Collaborative innovation in the public sector: the argument

There has been a growing interest in the question of how to spur innovation in the public sector, and recent research points to multi-actor collaboration as a superior innovation driver. This article explains why and how multi-actor collaboration may spur public innovation. It also discusses why we should expect different public and private actors to engage in demanding processes of collaborative interaction in order to produce risk-filled public innovations. Finally, it reflects on how it is possible to overcome the barriers to collaborative innovation through a combination of institutional design and the exercise of leadership and management.     

基于博弈论的工业企业和物流企业协同发展措施研究

用博弈论分析了工业企业和物流企业协同发展的长期稳定条件,提出了政府政策的思路和措施：营造协同发展的政策环境,通过奖惩机制促进协同发展,构建物流服务市场体系和公共信息平台等。     

Designing Public Services: The usefulness of three service design methods for identifying user experiences

This article examines the use of three service design methods in exploring complex public service systems. The methods used were the persona technique, mapping techniques in collaborative design workshops, and observations supplemented by group discussions. In their application to a university service, it was found that through their user-centred and collaborative approach, the service design methods assisted in the analysis of user experiences, including critical incidents, within the service system. It was also identified that user co-production formed the core of the service system and its processes, which highlights the need to actively involve users in public service design projects.     

Strategic Inter-Organizational Cooperation in Complex Environments

Abstract

Strategic management research is increasingly concerned with understanding processes of network governance in which mechanisms for building partnerships among a number of public agencies and non-governmental organizations are more important than ever. Drawing examples from Canada, the paper analyses the nature of inter-jurisdictional and inter-organizational collaboration in complex and dynamic environments, and their implications for the strategic pursuit of organizational goals. The premise of the discussion is that public managers often pursue organizational goals in the context of external environmental systems characterized by complexity and constant change. From this perspective, public agencies must often seek to maintain relatively stable alliances while anticipating and adapting to environmental change in the pursuit of their organization's goals. The two cases in the paper illustrate three critical elements of collaborative network governance: first, the vertical and horizontal inter-jurisdictional dimensions of joint policy action; second the multiplicity of lenses of interpretation among agents, including the perceptions and values of non-governmental stakeholders and the strategic outreach of public agencies to these groups; and third, it traces the various stages of evolving networks, highlighting the changes and adaptations characterizing the processes involved in joint policy actions.     

The effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in urban waste management: An explicatory empirical analysis of Italian municipal corporations

This paper investigates the effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in Italian municipally owned corporations (MOCs) dealing with urban waste management, trying to understand if multiple ownership can generate better performance compared to single ownership and if the presence of private partners could be crucial in this. The research question is answered by analyzing 41 MOCs of the largest Italian cities operating in urban waste management. In this specific sector, public administrations have tried to improve their offer in terms of sustainable development, environmental policy, and efficiency. The paper covers the Italian case study, where urban waste production per capita is higher than the European average figure. The waste cycle management service is operated in Italy at local level through totally publicly owned companies (monoadministration or multiadministration), mixed (public–private) companies, or via a full externalization achieved by means of public tenders. Through a multinomial ordered probit panel, we show that MOCs with multiple owners perform better than those having a single owner and perform much better with the presence of a private partner, confirming those academic findings according to which collaborative arrangements can increase efficiency, do better than public sector bureaucracy, and lower the costs of service provision. The results of this paper can be used by academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only study that applies this perspective to the analysis of the current international waste management scenario with relation to MOCs having multiple ownerships.     

制造类高职院校提升协同创新能力研究

制造类高职院校在内涵式发展与协同创新推进过程中,需要结合优势、发挥特色,主动成为政府和企业的高参智囊,通过积极申办产业公共平台,管理创新,贴近产业前沿实施专业建设和人才培养,加强质和量并重的师资队伍建设等重点工作,促进内涵发展与协同创新的有机融合,提升制造类高职院校协同创新能力。     

公共信息图形标志标准化的实践与探索

本文阐述了公共信息图形标志推广的意义，分析了上海公共信息图形标志的现状，介绍了上海绿化和市容行业与上海市质量技术监督局合作推动本市公园绿地公共信息图形标志设置规范的概况，论述了此项工作对上海构建闰际化现代城市的意义和思考。     

Do interlocal contracts seek collaborative efficiency? An investigation of police service delivery in California cities

ABSTRACT

Do interlocal contracts for police service seek and achieve collaborative efficiency? This research builds upon recent discussions of collaborative efficiency, including the rationale for, and consequences of, efficiency-seeking reforms in the public sector. Evaluating the experience of cities in California between 2001 and 2010, the investigation shows some cities seek budget savings through interlocal contracts, but others turn to this mechanism due to various forms of ex-ante interdependence. Through analysis of the organizational interdependence associated with interlocal contracting, this case provides evidence that interlocal contracts for police service can yield cost savings, but collaborative efficiency is not guaranteed.     

供应链网格协同模型研究

阐述了CSCW协同工作理论,引入了协同网格概念,提出了供应链网格协同工作环境框架,在此基础上构建了供应链网格的协同工作模型:n维CPFR模型。     

Relationship risk perception and determinants of the collaboration fluency of buyer–supplier relationships in public service procurement

Public service procurement effectiveness has been emphasized as a major challenge in recent years. Well-managed partnerships between buyers and suppliers are needed in this domain to achieve collaboration fluency and improve the effectiveness of procurement. The main objective of this study is to determine which issues managerial teams must emphasize when aiming to create a solid partnership based on pre-existing collaborative relationships. The originality of this study lies in the domain approached (public service procurement in social and healthcare services), as well as the variable it attempts to explain (collaboration fluency). The study investigates two major issues: firstly, how collaboration risk perception influences communication, trust, and the governance of a collaboration and, secondly, how these factors (communication, trust, and governance) affect collaboration fluency. The study is performed via a survey regarding the collaboration of the public sector with organizations from the private and third (non-profit) sectors within public service procurement. The empirical evidence was gathered with a structured online questionnaire that was sent to organizations from the private and third sectors that provide services in the social and healthcare domain. The results indicate that in collaborative relationships in public service procurement, the higher the perceived relationship risks are, the more positive effects they will have in terms of increasing trust, communication, and the quality of collaboration management. Furthermore, communication, governance, and administration have strong influences on collaboration fluency.     

Enacting the entrepreneurial self: Public-private innovation as an actualization of a neoliberal market dispositive

Drawing on Foucault’s writings on power, neoliberalism, and the dispositive, this article analyses the identity politics that is immanent in a new collaborative practice between the public and private sector called public-private innovation (PPI). We argue that PPI is an element in actualizing a neoliberal market dispositive through inclining subjects to work on themselves in order to actualize their entrepreneurial self, thereby disconnecting them from their public service identity. The construction of two narratives supports the constitution of the political space of PPI: the fiery soul narrative and the need narrative. An important part of this identity politics is the construction of the narrative of the individual entrepreneur. Rather than expressing new public governance in the public sector, PPI actualizes a dispositive that marketizes public services as part of a neoliberal agenda. The narrative of PPI distracts from the marketization of public sector and leaves no other space for public-sector employees than to constitute themselves within contradictory feelings of enthusiasm and anxiety, determination and self-blame, responsibility and inadequacy, and bustle and confusion.     

公共政策与医疗保障体系建设协同创新研究

以制度建设的协同创新为研究对象，认为医疗保障制度的社会属性决定其公共政策的基本定位，分析了公共政策与医疗保障体系动态协同的实践取向，认为医疗保障制度的建立健全必须与公共政策协同建构、同步发展，兼顾效率与公平，才能实现社会公平正义。     

共享经济下基于消费者行为决策视角的消费者参与协同消费意愿研究

论文基于消费者行为决策视角开展调查研究,分析消费者参与协同消费的意愿及相关影响因素。结果表明,消费者普遍看好协同消费模式的发展前景,对该模式的接受意愿较高。感知易用性、感知经济性、感知愉悦性是影响协同消费接受意愿的驱动因素,而感知风险能够消极影响消费者对协同消费模式的接受意愿。其中,担心个人信息泄露的隐私风险影响最大,而与支付相关的财务风险的影响相对较低。     

特征选择在协同过滤推荐算法中的应用研究

用户-项目评分数据集的高维稀疏性使得传统的协同过滤处于"维度困境"。运用降维技术的特征变换方法的协同过滤算法虽然缩减用户-项目评分数据集规模,但在某种程度上导致信息损失。本文提出将特征选择方法和技术运用于协同过滤算法,并且给出了基于有监督特征选择的协同过滤框架及其协同过滤流程。     

中原经济区协同物流发展策略研究

区域协同物流的发展是中原经济区整体发展的内在要求,也是其重要基础。本文首先对区域协同物流的研究现状进行了概述,然后分析了中原经济区发展协同物流的重要性,在此基础上,对制约中原经济区协同物流发展的四大因素进行剖析,最后提出中原经济区协同物流发展的五大策略,即建立三级联动机制、构建综合运输网络协同体系、构建物流信息服务协同体系、打造区域物流龙头企业和构建供应链协同物流体系。     

SNS技术在网络协作学习系统中的应用

本文重点研究如何在网络协作学习中引入SNS的技术手段,让协作学习彻底发挥出其优势。文章分析了网络协作学习的发展现状,分析了SNS与网络协作学习的结合点,展示如何运用SNS的相关技术来改进网络协作学习,并用具体实例对应用的方式进行了详细说明。