ABSTRACT

The recently adopted German Online Access Act triggered the creation of digitalization labs for designing digital services, bringing together federal, state, and local authorities; end-users; and private-sector actors. These labs provide opportunities for boundary spanning due to organizational field and lab features. Our comparative case studies on three digitalization labs show variations in boundary spanning and reveal lab members de-coupling from their parent organizations to a varying extent. We have concluded labs offer boundary spanning that supports safeguarding the legitimacy of innovative policy designs but also raise concerns over public accountability.

摘要

最近通过的德国在线访问法案触发了数字化实验室的创建，用于设计数字服务，将联邦、州和地方当局聚集在一起；终端用户; 和私营部门的参与者。由于组织领域和实验室特点，这些实验室提供了跨越边界的机会。我们对三个数字化实验室的比较案例研究显示了边界跨越的变化，并揭示了实验室成员在不同程度上与其母组织脱钩。我们得出的结论是，实验室提供的边界跨越支持维护创新政策设计的合法性，但也引发了对公共责任的担忧。