Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to develop the idea of Innovative Laboratories as a learning format which can be used to create public value in a Danish context by specifically coping with strategic challenges which takes the form of paradoxes.
Design/methodology/approach: The learning format is theoretically informed by Niklas Luhmann’s functional approach as well as based on concrete teaching experiences within the course on strategy which is an integral part of the Master of Public Administration, CBS.
Findings: The structure and processes of Innovative Laboratories incorporate the idea of theoretical perspectives as contingent ways of observing and apply this idea to the way strategic problems are reformulated by the participants and thus to how new strategic solutions become viable.
Originality/value: As such, the laboratories represent a way of innovation, as the most valuable part of the process is not to find a solution but to create a new problem by reformulation. This innovation process is captured by the metaphor of ‘managination’.
Design/methodology/approach: The learning format is theoretically informed by Niklas Luhmann’s functional approach as well as based on concrete teaching experiences within the course on strategy which is an integral part of the Master of Public Administration, CBS.
Findings: The structure and processes of Innovative Laboratories incorporate the idea of theoretical perspectives as contingent ways of observing and apply this idea to the way strategic problems are reformulated by the participants and thus to how new strategic solutions become viable.
Originality/value: As such, the laboratories represent a way of innovation, as the most valuable part of the process is not to find a solution but to create a new problem by reformulation. This innovation process is captured by the metaphor of ‘managination’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Developing Public Managers for a Changing World |
| Editors | Klaus Majgaard, Jens Carl Ry Nielsen, John W. Raine, Bríd Quinn |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Place of Publication | Bingley |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 163-181 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781786350800 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781786350794 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Series | Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management |
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| Volume | 5 |
| ISSN | 2045-7944 |
Keywords
- Paradox
- Public value
- Strategy
- Laboratories
- Learning
- Functional method