The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Sector Innovations: A Meta-Synthesis of the Literature

Hanna de Vries, Lars Tummers, Victor Bekkers · 2018 · Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

Summary. This meta-synthesis examines how public sector innovations spread and get adopted across three research areas: public management, public policy, and e-government. The authors find these fields operate independently with different models and rarely define key terms clearly. They identify that macro-institutional factors dominate public management and policy research, while e-government scholars focus more on individual-level factors. The paper proposes an integrated framework of adoption drivers and recommends future research combine multiple organizational levels, distinguish between innovation generation and adoption, and incorporate collaborative innovation approaches.

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  title   = {The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Sector Innovations: A Meta-Synthesis of the Literature},
  author  = {Hanna de Vries and Lars Tummers and Victor Bekkers},
  journal = {Perspectives on Public Management and Governance},
  year    = {2018},
  doi     = {10.1093/ppmgov/gvy001},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvy001}
}

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DOI

10.1093/ppmgov/gvy001

Countries

Netherlands

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-theory, policy, general-innovation

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2026-04-28