Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning
- The recently adopted German Online Access Act triggered the creation of digitalization labs for designing digital services, bringing together federal, state, and local authorities; end-users; and private-sector actors. These labs provide opportunities for boundary spanning due to organizational field and lab features. Our comparative case studies on three digitalization labs show variations in boundary spanning and reveal lab members de-coupling from their parent organizations to a varying extent. We have concluded labs offer boundary spanning that supports safeguarding the legitimacy of innovative policy designs but also raise concerns over public accountability.
| Author details: | Julia FleischerORCiDGND, Nora Carstens |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1893803 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1065 |
| ISSN: | 1461-667X |
| Title of parent work (English): | Public Management Review |
| Subtitle (English): | inside the digital transformation in Germany |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/03/01 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2022/09/22 |
| Tag: | boundary spanning; collaboration; digitalization; inter-governmental relations |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| First page: | 1208 |
| Last Page: | 1225 |
| Funding institution: | European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (H2020-EU.3.6.3.) |
| Funding number: | 726840 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
