Administrative Innovation Research Articles

Managerial Innovation in the Public Sector: An Exploratory Study on the State University Administration in Sri Lanka

Universities are expected to provide employable and quality graduates. The government of Sri Lanka provides education facilities to the nations and the total expenditure incurred from the General Treasury. However, a lack of financial resources is one of main constraints being faced by the State universities. These situations negatively affect the performance of the students. Even though, the financial and other constraints remain, universities would not reduce the expected service delivery. Thus, this paper argues that universities could perform in innovative ways in managing their educational programmes that would lead to improve the quality and the relevance of the output of the universities leading to more effective and efficient administration. Thus, this study examines the utility of innovation theory in university administration in Sri Lanka. The study attempts to answer two main research questions: Is innovation possible in the university Administration? And what are the main factors affecting on innovation in the university administration? Qualitative research approach with a purposive sample of 20 administrators from four universities from the Western Province was selected by using reputed snowballing technique. Descriptive analysis was undertaken. The study confirmed that innovation is possible and already happening within the university administration. Innovation in university administration means introducing and implementing systems of management by using new ideas to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the degree programs. The study presents several innovative practices initiated by the university administration which have created potential benefits to the degree programs. The administrators’ motivation to achieve is the significant determinant of the managerial innovation and supportive environment which is mainly the supports of the academic staff and the external environment are other significant determinants of managerial innovation in the administration of the selected universities in Sri Lanka.KeywordsManagerial Innovation, Public Sector, University Administration

Curatorship in higher education: What to do?

In the article on the basis of the author's questioning of students I and II courses of one of Novosibirsk universities reveals the problems of contemporary curating. To do this in a formalized way are studied students opinion on the need for supervision in the I and II courses of study, the functional responsibilities of curators, the characteristics of group cohesion, promote healthy lifestyles, cultural education, the advisability of establishing the frequency of supervisory hours, attracting parents to solve students' problems, combined personal and business qualities that should be possessed curator. Identified current assessment of the extent to which the curators of their duties. The possibilities of using the institution of tutoring as a supplement to the curatorship. The methods of implementation of student self-government and administrative innovations in order to improve performance of supervisory functions.

Coping with the Global Economic Crisis: The Regional Political Economy of Emergency Social Shock Absorbers in Italy

ABSTRACTThis article contributes to the debate on governing the global financial crisis, focusing on the regional governance of emergency social shock absorbers in Italy. The article seeks to make two related contributions. First, it argues that subnational governments have been the main drivers of change in labour market policies. Second, it shows that state–local governance elicited a path-altering system by ‘patching up’ a hybrid administrative structure and by ‘converting’ the traditional goals of social shock absorbers from income maintenance to welfare-to-work. The article provides qualitative evidence on the changing organizational bases of the labour markets of two large Italian regions: Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. Evidence suggests that administrative innovation and path dependence intertwined in the governance of the global economic crisis in Italy, mitigating the entrenched distortions of labour market policies.

The Open Government Data Policy as a Strategic Use of Information to Entrench Neoliberalism? The Case of Italy

The philosophy of Open Government provides a new paradigm of innovation in public admin-istration built around three key words: transparency, participation and collaboration. Greater transparency of information about the PA and its way of working should help to regain public confidence in the institu-tions, motivating people to take a more active part in decision making processes. It should also encourage them to support the institutions by inputting their own knowledge and abilities, consequently engendering a widespread spirit of collaboration between different public authorities and between them and the pub-lic, businesses and non profit organisations, in order to relaunching the economic value of the Public Sec-tor Information (Huijboom, Van den Broek, 2011). The hypothesis behind this contribution, starting from an approach based on an interpretation of significant elements in public action (Moini 2013) and of their conceptual framework (Fischer 2003), is that through which open government, open data, social media, collective intelligence, and connectivity are key words in a new rhetoric of administrative innovation - summed up in the label ‘’government 2.0’’ - which refers to a form of public action easily seen to be drawn from the neoliberal paradigm (Jessop, 2002), even though subject to some variegated form at na-tional level

The impact of transformational leadership on management innovatıon: an empirical research in Turkey

The number of academic researches on innovation has been steadily on the rise. Yet these researches focus primarily on economic impacts of technological transformations and product and process innovations based on technology (Damanpour, 2014). The number of researches and academic publications about management innovation are relatively low with respect to technological innovation. Yet organizational innovations occurred as a result of management innovations, are considered as a prerequisite for technological innovations (Sanidas, 2005). In this regard, the aim of this study is to analyze the impact of transformational leadership sub-components such as idealized influence (charisma), inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individual consideration on management innovation. The research data are obtained through 198 Turkish public managers. The analyses reveals that individual consideration has a positive and significant impact on management innovation, whereas other sub-components such as idealized influence (charisma), inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation do not cause a significant impact. Keywords: Management innovation, innovation, transformational leadership, Leadership, administrative innovation. JEL Classification: M1, O30, O31

Key Aspects of a Sustainable Health Insurance System in Germany.

The main goals of health-care systems are to improve the health of the population they serve, respond to people's legitimate expectations, and offer fair financing. As a result, the health system in Germany is subject to continuous adaption as well as public and political discussions about its design. This paper analyzes the key challenges for the German health-care system and the underlying factors driving these challenges. We aim to identify possible solutions to put the German health-care system in a better position to face these challenges. We utilize a broad array of methods to answer these questions, including a review of the published and grey literature on health-care planning in Germany, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the system, and an online questionnaire. We find that the most urgent (and manageable) aspects that merit attention are holistic hospital planning, initiatives to increase (administrative) innovation in the health-care system, incentives to increase prevention, and approaches to increase analytical quality assurance. We found that hospital planning, innovation, quality control, and prevention, are considered to be the topics most in need of attention in the German health system.

Using administrative innovation to address missed consultant outpatient appointments

An administrative innovation for booking outpatient appointments has been introduced in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, variously known as ‘patient-focussed booking’ (PFB) and ‘partial booking’. It has three distinct features: patients must confirm their wish to have an appointment; patients are given a choice of date, time and place for the appointment; and the appointment is booked only a short time in advance of the due date. Previous studies have shown a reduction in missed booked appointments, either because the patient could not attend (CNA) or did not attend (DNA). Our results, covering a more recent period, confirm these findings, and show they can be sustained for longer periods. The requirement that patients must confirm their wish to have an appointment can lead to some referrals not ending up as booked appointments. Some may choose to withdraw; others simply did not reply, ‘non-responders’. Either way, those that do not are referred back to their GP. This study finds non-response was much less common that previous studies. However, it was common enough to offset the effect of PFB on missed booked appointments due to CNA and DNA. To that extent, the innovation did not make much change to civic disengagement, except for providers who are now better able to plan clinics.

الإبداع الإداري لرؤساء و مشرفي الأقسام العلمية و دوره في التنمية المهنية لأعضاء هيئة التدريس بجامعة الجوف

الإبداع الإداري | رؤساء و مشرفو الأقسام العلمية | المهارات الإبداعية | التنمية المهنية | جامعة الجوف | Administrative Innovation | Heads and Supervisors of Academic Departments | Innovation Skills | Professional Development | Al Jouf University

Technology adoption in diffusion of innovations perspective: introduction of an ERP system in a non-profit organization

This study aimed to describe the adoption process in light of the diffusion of innovations and technologies of the management system enterprise resource planning in a non-profit organization, considering inhibiting and facilitating factors of this process and innovations or arising benefits. A descriptive qualitative approach was conducted through a case study. Triangulation of researchers was used in the content analysis of the empirical evidences obtained through 17 structured interviews. It was concluded with this study that the facilitating factors outweigh the inhibiting factors of the adoption of the system. With regard to innovations arising from the adoption of this technology, it was found that there were process and administrative innovations through the implementation of new processes, practices and structural organization, which resulted in the effective reach of the organization's objective, with respect to the compliance for business customers which had as goal to adjust themselves to the standards of minimum quotas for hiring young apprentices.

Examining the Impact of Competitive Strategies on Corporate Innovation: An Empirical Study in Automobile Industry

This study is devoted to the empirical assessment of the impact of competitive strategies on corporate innovation in the automobile industry of Iran. The study involves a questionnaire-based survey of managers from two major automobile manufacturers (SAIPA and Iran Khodro) in Iran. A total of 286 useable questionnaires were received from managers from the two manufacturers. These were subjected to a series of correlational and regression analyses. The measures of the independent (competitive strategies) and dependent (corporate innovation) variables are based on literature. The results reveal that competitive strategies of Porter had a positive and significant influence on corporate innovation. With strong statistical significance, three competitive strategies-cost leadership, differentiation, and focus- provide an explanation for variations in corporate innovation dimensions including innovation in product, innovation in process, and administrative innovation. Although the literature has long pointed out the importance of competitive strategies as a determinant of innovation, strategists have not focused on the impact of each strategy on the dimensions of innovation. Thus, this study makes a contribution towards filling this gap.

Administrative and leadership innovation in the 21st century: A secondary school sub-sector perspective in Kenya

Administrative and leadership innovation in the 21st century: A secondary school sub-sector perspective in Kenya

An empirical investigation of the relationship between Six Sigma practices and organisational innovation

Both Six Sigma and innovation play key roles in improving competitiveness. While there is abundant research on Six Sigma and innovation from many perspectives, rigorous empirical research investigating the impact of Six Sigma on organisational innovation has been limited. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between Six Sigma practices and different types of organisational innovation including product innovation, process innovation, and administrative innovation. Empirical data were collected from 249 firms in China which had implemented Six Sigma as a formal programme in their organisation. Structural Equation Modelling was used to test the hypothesised relationship between Six Sigma practices and innovation. The results show that Six Sigma management, infrastructure, and core practices have a positive relationship with product, process, and administrative innovation. This study contributes to a better understanding of how firms can take advantage of the Six Sigma implementation to improve their capacity in innovation.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ENTERPRISE MANAGERS’ MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY

The article includes the theoretical and practical results of the study, analysis and systematization of activity of categories of managers of the enterprise with the highlighting of socio-economic and psychological aspects, as well as indicators characterizing the working efficiency of managers-innovators and efficiency of fulfilment of administrative innovations by them. Researches carried out confirm the necessity of professional management by managers of all divisions of the enterprise with a consideration of organizational, economic, industrial, technical and socio-psychological factors.

Innovation strategy and performance of international technology services ventures

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating role of structural autonomy in the relationship between innovation strategy and performance of international technology services ventures (ITVs).Design/methodology/approach– Data were collected from 200 ITVs serving markets outside their country of origin. Instrumentation followed standard procedure by adapting validated and parsimonious items from existing literature. Factor and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were applied to examine the hypothesised relationships.Findings– The results indicate a significant relationship between innovation strategy (namely service products innovation, process innovation and administrative innovation) and performance of ITVs. Structural autonomy moderates the relationship between process innovation, administrative innovation and performance. There is no moderating effect of autonomy in the association of service products innovation and performance.Research limitations/implications– The study corroborates the argument that service firms have more to gain by granting autonomy. In the context of ITVs, such gains are directly linked to performance through enhanced innovation in service products, processes and administration. It adds to the growing suggestions and rebuttals in the literature of a trade-off between innovation and communication; and between exploration of new knowledge and exploitation of existing knowledge in organisations when there is autonomy.Practical implications– Management can increase innovation and performance by granting greater autonomy to employees. Managers who are concerned that autonomy’s capacity to increase innovation capability may come at the expense of intra-organisational communication can be assured that intra-organisation communications can exist in the face of autonomy, and there is no real trade-off after all. Similarly, there is no basis for any concern for potential trade-off between exploration of new knowledge and exploitation of existing knowledge in organisations.Originality/value– Research suggests that autonomy of subsidiaries, units, groups or individuals encourages innovation, and that innovation strategy can enhance organisational performance. However, there is a counter-argument that same autonomy potentially hinders exploitation and performance of innovations. The study sheds more light on these anecdotal views based on data from ITVs.

Les guerres d’Amédée VII de Savoie : coûts et administration militaire (1378–1391)

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the study of the House of Amadeus VII of Savoy (1383–1391) through the rich accounts of the war treasury available for this period. Reflecting on both “ideas” and “weapons”, this study focuses on the importance of the administrative innovations proposed by Amadeus VII, particularly in the administrative management of war and recruiting of officers to staff the treasury. The principal merit of this study is to precisely calculate the costs and the number of personnel that the prince employed for his military policy, numbering on the scale of ten expeditions during a reign that lasted only eight years. We will then compare the numbers drawn from these accounts to those from the middle of the 15th century, a period during which war played an essential role, according to recent historiography, in the financial crisis of the duchy of Louis 1st of Savoy.

Quality management and innovation: new insights on a structural contingency framework

AbstractWith increasing market competition, organizations are striving for greater innovation in products and services. Quality management has the potential to invigorate an organization’s product, process and administrative innovation when strategically aligned with internal contingencies. This paper seeks to address the relationship between social and technical quality management with innovation. Moreover, this paper empirically assesses contingency factors including organization size, task and managerial ethics which play roles in moderating the relationship between quality management and innovation. Based on an empirical study we find social quality management practices, not technical quality management practices, are positively associated with innovation. We also find a reciprocal positive relationship between social quality management and technical quality management. In addition our research reveals the positive relationship between quality management and innovation is moderated by the effects of organizational size, task and managerial ethics.

The Erosion of the Meroni Doctrine: The Case of the European Aviation Safety Agency

The non-delegation doctrine developed since the Meroni case has been the main constraint to the full development of EU agencies' powers. In recent years, however, the doctrine is showing its permeability to administrative innovation in the area of internal market regulation. This article aims to contribute to the debate about the sustainability of the Meroni doctrine, by focusing on the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)'s rule-making powers as an illustrative case study. In doing so, the article addresses the main issues of the Meroni doctrine and contextualizes these in the specific domain of EASA, with a view to apply, mutatis mutandis, the inferences to other policy domains.

Predictors of administrative innovation: functions and organizational methods -Mexican and Colombian hospitals-

Objective – To determine to what extent functions and organizational methods influence on administrative innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This research is quantitative approach, with a not experimental and transversal design. The hypothesis was supported by using a transactional study with a sample of Mexican and Colombian hospitals through the perception of their high and medium level managers. The hospital sampling was by convenience.Findings - Organizational functions and methods are associated and are predictors of administrative innovation.Practical implications – As long as the hospital encourages the development of training and knowledge methods, autonomy methods for employees are developed, and when performance appraisal takes place in hospital, new methods will be able to develop and organize the routines and the management procedures, allocation of responsibilities and power among employees could be developed, as well as to develop new structure concepts for workplace, organizational practices and external relationships.

Performance effects of early and late Six Sigma adoptions

Operations managers confront the challenge of deciding when to implement various administrative innovations such as Six Sigma, ISO 9000, and Lean. This research examines the operating performance effects of early versus late adoption of Six Sigma process improvement. Using theories of organizational learning and knowledge transfer, we develop hypotheses describing the advantages of late adoption, and factors that affect a firm's ability to benefit from Six Sigma either as an early or late adopter. We test our hypotheses using an event study methodology. The empirical results show that, on average, late adopters in our sample enjoy significantly greater performance gains than early adopters. However, the analysis also shows that the advantages of late adopters tend to be moderated by certain environmental and structural characteristics of a firm. Specifically, late adoption has been favorable when firms operate in low-velocity industries, when they primarily sell in business-to-business markets, when they have good financial performance prior to adoption, and when they are large. Conversely, when adopters operate in conditions that have the opposite characteristics, then early adoption appears to have produced better results. Understanding the effects of these factors can enhance managers’ abilities to determine appropriate adoption timing to increase performance.

Factors influencing organisational innovation in wind farms

Innovation in the wind energy sector is dominated by R&D investments in wind turbine industry. The focus on product innovation is high owing to the huge setup cost involved in setting up a wind turbine. However, not much work is found among literature on innovation adopted by wind firms that own these wind turbines. This study proposes a framework for analysing innovations adopted by wind firms by constructing an organisational innovation measurement model. The study examines the effects of various factors on two types of innovation, administrative and technical, in the selected sample of wind firms. The results indicate that factors that are favourable to administrative innovations differ from those that are conducive to technological innovation. Three variables are significant predictors of administrative innovation: organisational characteristic innovation and strategic innovation. Process innovation contributes significantly to the model of technical innovation. Moreover, the results of the study show that more importance is given to technical innovation than administrative innovation in wind farms.