TY - JOUR
T1 - The multiple institutional logics of innovation
AU - Lazer, David
AU - Mergel, Ines
AU - Ziniel, Curtis
AU - Esterling, Kevin M.
AU - Neblo, Michael A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the support of NSF grant No. 0429452. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - How do decentralized systems deal with innovation? In particular, how do they aggregate the myriad experiences of their component parts, facilitate diffusion of information, and encourage investments in innovation? This is a classic problem in the study of human institutions. It is also one of the biggest challenges that exists in the governance of decentralized systems: How do institutions shape individual behavior around solving problems and sharing information in a fashion that is reasonably compatible with collective well-being? We use a particular decentralized institution (the U.S. House of Representatives), wrestling with a novel problem (how to utilize the Internet), to explore the implications of three archetypical principles for organizing collective problem solving: market, network, and hierarchy.
AB - How do decentralized systems deal with innovation? In particular, how do they aggregate the myriad experiences of their component parts, facilitate diffusion of information, and encourage investments in innovation? This is a classic problem in the study of human institutions. It is also one of the biggest challenges that exists in the governance of decentralized systems: How do institutions shape individual behavior around solving problems and sharing information in a fashion that is reasonably compatible with collective well-being? We use a particular decentralized institution (the U.S. House of Representatives), wrestling with a novel problem (how to utilize the Internet), to explore the implications of three archetypical principles for organizing collective problem solving: market, network, and hierarchy.
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U2 - 10.1080/10967494.2011.618308
DO - 10.1080/10967494.2011.618308
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:82055180641
SN - 1096-7494
VL - 14
SP - 311
EP - 340
JO - International Public Management Journal
JF - International Public Management Journal
IS - 3
ER -