DPA Research & Policy Seminar Series: Mehmet Demircioglu (National University of Singapore)
March 11, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Government and Private Sector Employees Experience to Public Sector Innovation: A Qualitative and Comparative Study
The study's primary purpose is to understand, analyze, evaluate, and compare how collaboration between public and private sector employees affects public sector innovation. Transcribing interviews of 14 private and 20 public sector employees (n=34) reveal mixed results. While both public and private sector employees report that public organizations are innovative, what matters most for public sector innovation is leadership and employees. When organizational leaders and employees are innovative and encourage innovation, public organizations become innovative despite organizational structure and fewer resources discouraging innovation. Other findings include that both public and private sector employees state that private organizations are more innovative than public organizations. Collaboration between public and private sector employees positively affects both sectors, although it has a more positive and significant effect on the public sector. When public organizations become facilitators (instead of initiators), innovations in private organizations can increase significantly. A unique contribution of this study is interviewing both public and private sector employees who regularly collaborate to understand public sector innovation.
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Feb 17, 2022
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Apr 4, 2022