TY - Generic T1 - Emergence and Sustainability of the Innovation Process of Mexico’s Local Governments Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gilberto Garcia AB -

Gilberto Garcia, July 2005 

After analyzing 271 government programs qualified as innovative through having won a national government and local management award in Mexico, and submitting a questionnaire to the 79 persons responsible for some of the best practices in the municipal government in the years 2001, 2002, and 2003, this paper identifies and analyzes variables that have a bearing on the emergence and sustainability of the innovation process in Mexico’s local governments. The results show paradoxes in the process of innovation of organizations needing to accomplish increasingly complex objectives through a lack of mechanisms to accrue intermediate and long-term technical expertise, as well as organizational learning. This paper also describes the differences in the process of innovation according to three contextual variables: organization capability, institutional development, and political and electoral competition.

UR - https://ash.harvard.edu/files/emergence_and_sustainability.pdf ER -