Introduction to the special symposium on knowledge management and public administration: Good bedfellows or potential sparring partners
- 2013
- p.151-154.
- Feb
There has been a dramatic rise in the discussions around knowledge management and innovation within the public management arena in the last six years. Advocates of the fields of research argue that they enable agility, novelty, and value creation in policy development, policy implementation, and service delivery. However, there is an argument that attention to knowledge and innovation is often overly linear and simplistic and that, if more complex or practice-based approaches were made, the potential public administration outcomes would be quite different. - Reproduced.