TY - JOUR
AU - Meijer, A. J.
AB -  Building on the literature on collaborative leadership, this paper explores the roles of individual persons in processes of public innovation. On the basis of a literature review, a heuristic model is developed that consists of roles at different levels (entrepreneurial leadership versus innovation realization) and in different phases (idea generation, selection, testing, scaling-up, and diffusion). The value of this model is explored through an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of a police innovation in the Netherlands. The empirical study underlines the value of the model and shows that, although individual hero-innovators may not exist, distributed heroism does. 
TI - From Hero-Innovators to Distributed Heroism: An in-depth analysis of the role of individuals in public sector innovation
JF - Public Management Review
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2013.806575
DA - 2014-02-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/from-hero-innovators-to-distributed-heroism-an-in-depth-analysis-of-Hi4rzhafR3
SP - 199
EP - 216
VL - 16
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -