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- Title
Experimenting with public sector innovation: Revisiting Gow for the digital era.
- Authors
Doberstein, Carey; Charbonneau, Étienne
- Abstract
In 1988, James Iain Gow surveyed public servants across Canada on how they access and utilize research from various sources and how that is linked to policy innovation. He documented this research in his book Learning from Others (1994). Thirty years later, we replicate selected parts of the original survey conducted by Gow, but also add an experimental dimension that tests how subjects respond to public service innovations from around the world. We randomly alter key features of those innovations to examine if public servants reveal patterns in the way they process these innovations and make judgements about their suitability or promise.
- Subjects
PUBLIC sector; GOW, James Iain; INNOVATIONS in business; INDUSTRIAL surveys; CIVIL service
- Publication
Canadian Public Administration, 2020, Vol 63, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0008-4840
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/capa.12353