A resourcing perspective on public-private-sector collaborations for digital innovation

IF 6.8 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information and Organization Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2026.100611

Tobias Guggenberger , Moritz Schüll , Jens-Christian Stoetzer , Nils Urbach

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Abstract

The public sector faces increasing pressure to drive digital innovation to meet modern societies' demands. Existing literature calls for systematic approaches to digital innovation in the public sector and a better understanding thereof. However, the public sector still struggles to foster digital innovation and often fails to promote explorative initiatives as a basis for innovation. In this paper, using a case study of a German consortium project, we investigate how public-private partnerships can promote digital innovation in the public sector. We do so by adopting the resourcing perspective and building on recent conceptual work on network resourcing. Our findings reveal that the unique characteristics of digital innovation, as opposed to traditional forms of innovation, influence how public-private partnerships can effectively drive digital innovation. We identify decentralized, cross-sector digital innovation clusters as a critical factor for the emergence of digital innovation in public-private partnerships and theorize dissemination practices as an extension to network resourcing in cases of distributed innovation agency within networks of public-private partnerships.

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从资源角度看公私部门合作促进数字创新

公共部门面临越来越大的压力，需要推动数字创新以满足现代社会的需求。现有文献呼吁对公共部门的数字创新采取系统的方法，并对其有更好的理解。然而，公共部门仍在努力促进数字创新，往往未能推动探索性举措作为创新的基础。本文以一个德国财团项目为例，探讨了公私伙伴关系如何促进公共部门的数字创新。为此，我们采用资源视角，并以最近关于网络资源的概念性工作为基础。我们的研究结果表明，与传统创新形式相反，数字创新的独特特征影响了公私合作伙伴关系如何有效推动数字创新。我们将分散的、跨部门的数字创新集群确定为公私合作伙伴关系中数字创新出现的关键因素，并将传播实践理论化为公私合作伙伴关系网络中分布式创新机构的网络资源的延伸。

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Information and Organization Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.