The challenge of adaptive capability in public organizations

This article describes an attempt within the Danish Crime Prevention Council to improve adaptive capability. The article applies a complex adaptive system perspective and analyses the organizational identities of the Council to determine how processes of integration, differentiation and fragmentatio...

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Published inPublic management review Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 731 - 746
Main Author Aagaard, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2012
Subjects
Councillors
Danes
Identity
Institutionalism
Organizational goals
Public management
Strategic planning
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Summary:This article describes an attempt within the Danish Crime Prevention Council to improve adaptive capability. The article applies a complex adaptive system perspective and analyses the organizational identities of the Council to determine how processes of integration, differentiation and fragmentation influence adaptive capability. The findings emphasize the importance of path dependency in actor's attempts to adapt. Based on this finding, the article suggests that the complex adaptive system perspective can be enriched by an institutional theory. Reprinted by permission of Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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ISSN:1471-9037