TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fleischer, Julia
A1  - Carstens, Nora
T1  - Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning
BT  - inside the digital transformation in Germany
JF  - Public Management Review
N2  - 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.
KW  - boundary spanning
KW  - collaboration
KW  - digitalization
KW  - inter-governmental relations
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1893803
SN  - 1470-1065
SN  - 1461-667X
VL  - 24
IS  - 8
SP  - 1208
EP  - 1225
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -