Government as a platform,orchestration, and public value creation: The Italian case

E-Government literature has discussed how the adoption of the Government as a Platform (GaaP) can help public administration to produce more efficient public services. However, since little attention has been given to the impact of GaaP on public value creation more research is needed to analyse whether the GaaP is effective to help the government to deliver public services that fulfil social expectations and, hence, public value. Indeed, efficiency does not guarantee public value. Besides efficiency, public value incorporates citizens' variegated expectations and needs that change over time and that are sometimes rival. For these reasons, the delivery of public value is often challenging for public agencies. The aim of this paper is to explain how the GaaP configuration can help public administration to deliver public value better. The paper finds that the modularity of the platform configuration and different ecosystems that support public agencies need to be orchestrated to support the effective creation of public value. The authors analyse the case of the Italian GaaP initiative to discuss the importance of the orchestration of the GaaP characteristics to improve the coordination among public agencies and enable the co-production of services with external actors, in order to deliver public value better. The findings show that the orchestration of the GaaP configuration characteristics can enable Italian public administration to deliver public value, but also that, if the GaaP is not properly orchestrated, it can constrain the creation of public value.     

Developing a pedagogy of teacher education using self-study: A rhizomatic examination of negotiating learning and practice

This self-study of teacher education practices examines the processes of developing a pedagogy of teacher education. Drawing on multiple data sources (video and audio, reflective diary, and focus groups), we used concepts from rhizomatics to explore the question, “How does a teacher educator negotiate his learning and practice as he develops a pedagogy of teacher education?” We explicate the complexity of teacher education learning by showing how a conflux of interactive elements co-produce a teacher educator’s practice. This encourages us to introduce the metaphor of “orchestration” as a way of conceptualizing teacher educator practice and pedagogy.     

平台型组织视角下科研院所衍生创业机制研究 ——基于扎根理论的单案例探索

基于资源编排理论,从平台型组织视角对西光所案例进行扎根理论剖析,探索科研院所平台型组织的组织结构和运行机制及其对衍生创业的作用机理.研究表明,科研院所以开放的组织边界为基础,形成多个子平台相互耦合的平台核心以及具有多元异质性主体和产业链创新链融合特征的平台边缘,并依据自上而下授权赋能、自下而上资源倒逼、人才管理模式优化和协同竞争互动的机制运行,以上特点将促使内外部资源的有效编排,从而促进衍生创业.研究进一步拓展平台型组织理论的边界,从而为科研院所转型提供参考借鉴.