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Traditionally financial governance has been perceived and studied as a closed system. Yet, increasing sophistication of technology facilitates the emergence of new organizational forms of collaboration between the state and corporate actors. The study argues that co-creation becomes the way for public sector to mitigate new types of uncertainties, coming from increasing technological sophistication of the financial sector. Thus, new insights can be gained from looking at co-creation in financial governance, which is a unique setting for co-creation as state's partners are large and capable corporate organizations, especially in regards to financial innovation. Such an approach also brings new insight into co-production literature. To exemplify the argument, a closer look at how co-creation has been effectively applied by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in financial regulation and supervision as well as in policies related to promotion of the financial sector is provided.
Keywords: financial governance, co-creation, uncertainty, financial innovation, Singapore

This article uses insights from labour-market segmentation theory in order to investigate the wage differences between part-time and full-time workers in Germany at different parts of the wage distribution. This is accomplished with the use of a quintile regression and panel data from the German Socio Economic Panel (1991-2012). To obtain insights on the part-time wage differentials, we apply a counterfactual wage decomposition analysis. The results indicate the presence of a part-time wage penalty for involuntary part-time work at the low and middle parts of the wage distribution. In contrast, a wage premium for voluntary part-time work emerges, especially at the top of the distribution. Moreover, at the lower end of the wage distribution, part-time workers receive lower returns for their labour market characteristics, indicating the segmentation of the labour market. In contrast, the difference in the characteristics of part-timers and full-timers fully explains the part-time wage gap at the top of the wage distribution.

ABSTRACTThis article expands the literature on the rationales and governance of state owned enterprises (SOEs). We show that SOEs could be seen as instruments of innovation policies and change agents within broader innovation systems that can overcome many of the conventional challenges of innovation policy and its implementation, from coordination and implementation of policies and innovation system actor networks to financing innovation. We review the existing literature on the rationales of SOEs and extend it to include innovation as a central rationale. Thereafter we provide a taxonomy that reveals the necessary policy and managerial conditions and constraints for using SOEs as instruments of innovation policy. We place some of the better‐known innovation‐oriented SOE successes and failures into this taxonomy and show that this approach will allow in future research to explore different SOE practices and potential for using SOEs as innovation policy instruments across countries.

This paper uses insights from labour-market segmentation theory to investigate the wage differences between part-time and full-time workers in Germany at different parts of the wage distribution. This is accomplished with the use of a quintile regression and panel data from the SOEP (1991-2008). To get more insight on the part-time wage-gap, we apply a counterfactual wage decomposition analysis. The results show that, in the lower end of the wage distribution, part-time workers receive lower returns for their labour market characteristics, indicating the segmentation of the labour market. In contrast, at the top of the wage distribution, the part-time wage gap is fully explained by the difference in the characteristics of part-timers and full-timers.

La technologie est un facteur essentiel dans la vie des organisations. Rares sont pourtant les études qui s'intéressent à la technologie et aux organisations publiques. Dans le présent article, nous proposons de comprendre l'évolution technologique dans le secteur public, en particulier la manière dont la technologie influence la capacité administrative, au moyen d'un nouveau concept lié à la capacité technologique. Nous utilisons le cas de l'Estonie (internationalement associée à une image d'État électronique bien établi) pour répondre à deux questions de recherche : pourquoi et comment le changement technologique a-t-il lieu dans le secteur public, et quelle est son influence sur la capacité administrative dans les organisations publiques ? Nous allons voir que l'évolution dynamique et statique dans les capacités technologiques est influencée par quatre mécanismes de feedback et de sélection différents dans le secteur public. En conclusion, nous verrons que, malgré le faible intérêt de la littérature sur l'administration publique pour la question de la technologie, celle-ci est un facteur intrinsèque dans la manière dont la capacité administrative évolue. Remarques à l'intention des praticiens Dans le présent article, nous soutenons que le changement technologique dans le secteur public n'est pas qu'une question de compétences techniques, mais que la technologie a un impact fondamental sur la manière dont les organisations publiques fonctionnent et sur la manière dont les services sont offerts. Il existe néanmoins des différences fondamentales dans la rapidité avec laquelle la technologie fait sentir ses effets dans les différentes organisations et les différents services, ainsi que dans la direction de ces effets. Certaines organisations parviennent à développer les capacités technologiques et connaissent des évolutions rapides et transformatrices, contrairement à d'autres qui, par conséquent, connaissent une évolution progressive. Les causes à l'origine de cette différence sont à la fois internes et externes. Les organisations qui présentent des capacités technologiques dynamiques gèrent bien l'ambidextrie : elles recherchent de nouvelles solutions tout en parvenant à offrir des services de haut niveau. Nous proposons de nouvelles explications pour ce phénomène.

Technology is clearly a critical factor in the lives of organizations, yet there are only a few studies that deal with technology and public organizations. In this article, we propose to understand technological change in the public sector, in particular, how technology influences administrative capacity, through a new concept of technological capacity. We use the case of Estonia – internationally associated with a strong e-state profile – as an exploratory case to answer two research questions: 'Why and how does technological change take place in the public sector?' and 'How does technological change influence administrative capacity in public organizations?' We demonstrate how dynamic and static change in technological capacities is influenced by four different public sector feedback and selection mechanisms. We conclude that in spite of the neglected position of technology in the public administration literature, technology is an intrinsic factor in how administrative capacity evolves.

The paper maps and analyzes all existing practical exercises aiming to develop indicators for public sector innovations. To our knowledge this is the first attempt to comprehensively gather information about various international efforts. We only considered such exercises where actual indicators were developed and used at least once. We map five such exercises through extensive desk research and 13 interviews with surveyed project members. The paper shows that all existing attempts to measure public sector innovations operate within a rather limited conception of the public sector (efficiency), neglecting other possible logics (e.g. legitimacy); the existing exercises also neglect large areas of public sector activities, e.g. cooperation with business and third sectors (such as service co-creation, public-private partnership practices). This narrow focus often dictates that indicators and their technical assumptions are copied from the private sector; none of the five analyzed exercises utilized public administration experience and research (e.g. on performance measurement). The paper argues that instead of trying to come up with quantified indicators, public sector innovations should be assessed in complex evaluation frameworks.