Corporate Social Innovation in the Romanian Public Sector

Abstract

Contemporary society is evolving rapidly, fact which producing major changes within it. These changes are caused by the challenges of the public administration (Europeanization and Globalization) and result in the emergence of the new social problems (cultural, social, economic and environmental) that public authorities have to face and resolve them in a timely manner. Through this research we propose to analyze social innovation as a way to solve these social problems. Thus, we will accomplish a theoretical analysis of the concept of social innovation, integration of this concept in the corporate governance model of the public sector, making a comparative analysis between corporate social innovation implemented in the United Kingdom public sector and corporate social innovation implemented in the Romanian public sector so far. Also, we want to propose and promote as a coordination model of the Romanian public administration, corporate social innovation model as an alternative to traditional systems of coordination and as a way of expression of The New Public Management.

Keywords: social innovation, corporate governance, public sector

JEL Classification: O31