Public sector innovation is about finding new and better ways to achieve positive public outcomes. The increased complexity of the challenges faced by governments has made enhancing innovative capacity systems an imperative. But for approaches or solutions create lasting impact, they must be embedded as part existing systems. In same way, a sector’s innovate depends on whether in functions mech...

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: How do governments get great? This paper identifies ten cases of great governments to answer four dimensions of this question: What kinds of...

Bite sized Fiona Hamilton is a therapeutic writing practitioner and mother of three. She is a published poet and has written scripts for the theatre and community projects. In Bite Sized, (168 printed pages), she has made a personal telling of her daughter’s eating disorder in a prose poem. She has captured the very essence of a parent’s experience of having a child with an eating disorder and ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a crucial element of development projects, and this led anthropologists to speculate on the unintended consequences positioning big busi­ness as givers aid. Supported by international law governments that deregulate businesses who practice CSR, corporations move freely across borders into countries whose communities dependent corporate aid dollar...