This article systematically reviewed the academic research surrounding public sector innovation (PSI) to deliver an overview of PSI development in public administration (PA). This study analyzed 289 articles published between 1970 and 2020 using a bibliometric meta-analysis with HistCite software and a qualitative approach. This study found four primary research streams in PSI literature: (1) nature of public sector innovation; (2) strategy and innovation capacity; (3) adoption and diffusion of innovation; and (4) implementation and impact of innovation. Our analysis also revealed that the strategy and innovation capacity cluster has the fastest growth in publications. While the nature of the PSI stream is the least published research area, leadership, and organizational culture were the highest frequent antecedent and identified impacts in the empirical PSI studies. Finally, we offer 20 future research directions for these four research streams. This study may be the first to use HistCite bibliometric and qualitative analysis to make detailed information about each research stream of PSI literature in the PA discipline by measuring the number of publications over 50 years. The results of our review are limited to PSI publications in the PA field, which stemmed from the web of science database.

PurposeThis study examines the critical factors contributing to the different conditions of innovation sustainability after a change in local political leadership.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a multiple case study approach and applied the critical incident technique (CIT) to collect and analyze data from four innovation cases in the two local governments of Indonesia.FindingsThe results highlight that the sustainability condition of each innovation after the political regime change is determined by multiple critical factors.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, the data collected through interviews may contain a memory bias. Second, this study was limited to local governments and did not consider innovation taxonomies.Practical implicationsThe study implies that in order to sustain innovation, public leaders must support innovation legitimacy as a new organizational structure; thus, it can be more durable in the long term. In addition, public leaders need to minimize innovation politicization by authorizing bureaucrats to autonomously manage innovation operationalization.Social implicationsPublic leaders need to pay careful attention to their innovation sustainability because a non-sustained policy can disappoint the individuals working for it, losing their trust and enthusiasm. This dissatisfaction could become a barrier to mobilizing support for the following policies.Originality/valueInnovation sustainability is a new theme that is overlooked in the public sector innovation literature. Therefore, investigations using different methods and contexts are required, as this study offers. This study also demonstrated the value of CIT in identifying critical factors affecting innovation sustainability in the context of political leadership change.

This research is a mixed study that analyzes the implementation of agile organization and agile leadership, and analyzes the impact of its implementation on employee experience at the Technical Implementing Service Unit Digital Service Center, Geospatial Data and Information of West Java Provincial Government called Jabar Digital Service (JDS) This research was conducted by searching for information on civil servants (PNS) and ex- pert employees about organizational and leadership methods applied in Jabar Digital Service. Concepts of agile organization and agile leadership and researching quantitatively the perception of employee experience of expert employees on the implementation of agile conceptions to organization and leadership in Jabar Digital Service using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with a Partial Least Square (PLS) method was compared. This study shows that the implementation of agile organization and agile leadership can be applied in government organizations that are in fact rigid about change which is also shown by the level of positive perception of expert employees on the employee experience in the Jabar Digital Service environment.

Cartel is a group of several companies collude and give the appearance of competitive rivalry while in fact they have reached an understanding to jointly maximise profits. These companies involved in a conspiracy in anti trust activities. In industry and trade many cartel groups because their goals and action are categorized illegal in a country, especially in terms of price fixing. The purpose of this study is to reveal that cartel is not only a collusion among cartel companies, but also included outsider involvement in collusion. In sector case study of beef imports, the authors find that collusion in Indonesia through secret agreements , lobbying government through politician for private and collective benefits. This study is using qualitative-case study approach. Data is collecting by using literature study relating to the existence of cartel and articles that deals with the issue of cartel on beef imports throughout 2012 to 2018. The results of the study shows that inappropriate import policy is one of the causes of cartels and criminal act of corruption in cartel involving bureaucrat and politician privately or collectively.

Technological developments have shaped changes in communication and the ways people aspire for public services. Rigid, flaccid and slow bureaucratic type of organizations are no longer compatible with the new challenges in the so-called "disruptive environment". This paper tries to elaborate on the emergence of disruptive environment in which changes occur very quickly while the decision makers might not have adequate time to discern and to gauge the impact of policy alternatives. Creating agile governments, therefore, is a fundamental requirement in almost all countries. On the government response to harness the disruptive environment and to create an agile government, the Japanese vision of Society 5.0 is an interesting example to be considered by decision makers in developing countries. Under this vision, the use of IoT, AI, and robotics in providing public services, means that all policy makers need to find new ways to transform towards intelligent societies. Not only that agile government and the new public administration would be able to protect people from digital divide, but also that it would create a humane environment in which all the technology-based public services would improve prosperity and well-being for all.