Measuring capacity for innovation in local government organizations
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2016
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Cropley, D.
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Journal of Creativity and Business Innovation, 2016; 2:31-45
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While innovation is widely accepted as essential to organizational success, this narrative is tied typically to long- and short-term financial performance. This perspective overlooks performance and innovation in not-for-profit sectors of the economy, e.g. local government. Innovation –finding and exploiting novel and effective solutions to problems – is also vital to the success of local government organizations that are faced with the task of meeting the needs of their constituencies in a changing world. This article describes a model of the psychological antecedents of innovation, and leads to a measure of organizational capacity for innovation. A case study diagnosis of a local government organization is presented. The diagnostic baseline serves as a starting point for the improvement of local government organizations’ capacity for innovation, ultimately driving their ability to satisfy the needs of their constituencies, and therefore their non-financial performance.
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Copyright 2015 the author(s) The Journal CBI publishes open access articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://www.journalcbi.com/ccby.html)