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Bureaucrats as Innovators? Statistical Analysis on Innovative Capacity within the Hungarian Central Civil Service

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Bureaucrats as Innovators? Statistical Analysis on Innovative Capacity within the Hungarian Central Civil Service
 
Creator GELLÉN, Marton; Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Management and
Public Administration, National University of Public Service,
Budapest, Hungary
 
Subject innovation, legalism, centralization, bureaucracy.
 
Description What makes a public administration innovative if it is strongly legalistic and profoundly bureaucratic? Are there innovators in such a setting who would be able to elaborate strategies in accordance with public demands? If yes, who are the innovators and what are they like? Are they among the leaders? The article offers an answer to these questions based on an empirical research conducted in Hungary where public administration is not only legalistic but has a strong culture of topdown domination. The current study targets the key element of innovativeness namely: managerial and cultural prerequisites of innovation within central public administration. The empirical research was carried out in the Hungarian central civil service. The article also discusses whether such an environment would have an impact on innovations. According to the fi ndings of the article, certain prerequisites of an innovative environment exist in the given strictly hierarchic, traditionally stiff setting; however, traits of innovativeness can be identifi ed in innovators who are genuine bureaucrats at the same time.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2016-12-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/503
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2016: Special Issue; 38-54
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/503/492
 
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