Abstract
Building on the literature on collaborative leadership, this paper
explores the roles of individual persons in processes of public
innovation. On the basis of a literature review, a heuristic model is
developed that consists of roles at different levels (entrepreneurial
leadership versus innovation realization) and in different phases (idea
generation, selection, testing, scaling-up, and diffusion). The value of
this model is explored through an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of a
police innovation in the Netherlands. The empirical study underlines the
value of the model and shows that, although individual hero-innovators
may not exist, distributed heroism does.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199-216 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Public Management Review |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2, SI |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |