2Leadership and Barriers to Innovation in the Australian Public Sector
Introduction
The purpose of this chapter is to present specific barriers that hinder a culture of innovation, to identify leadership characteristics and organisational climate issues that spur innovation in the Australian public sector. According to Osterberg and Qvist (2020), the investigation of organisations’ characteristics for stimulating innovation has been significant in the existing literature on public sector organisations. Despite the plethora of research on innovation, seminal studies call for the need to examine innovation processes in the public sector (Agger & Sorensen, 2018; Torfing, 2019; Moussa, 2021a). It is imperative to develop ...
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