TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring police innovation
T2 - Issues and measurement
AU - King, William R.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This paper investigates conceptual and empirical issues in the study of police organizational innovation. In particular, previous studies of police innovation have rarely created measures of innovation that are in accord with established methods and theory employed in innovation studies of other organization types. To mitigate this oversight, this paper first describes four relevant issues in organizational innovation, and applies these issues to create a fivefold measure of police innovation with data on the 431 largest municipal US police departments. Second, the components of this fivefold typology of police innovation are factor analyzed, to assess their unidimensionality. The results of these analyses indicate that three of the five innovation types are, in themselves, multi-dimensional. Overall, police innovations do not adhere to the five innovation types suggested by theories of organizational innovation. Instead, the multi-dimensionality of police organizational innovation is demonstrated here.
AB - This paper investigates conceptual and empirical issues in the study of police organizational innovation. In particular, previous studies of police innovation have rarely created measures of innovation that are in accord with established methods and theory employed in innovation studies of other organization types. To mitigate this oversight, this paper first describes four relevant issues in organizational innovation, and applies these issues to create a fivefold measure of police innovation with data on the 431 largest municipal US police departments. Second, the components of this fivefold typology of police innovation are factor analyzed, to assess their unidimensionality. The results of these analyses indicate that three of the five innovation types are, in themselves, multi-dimensional. Overall, police innovations do not adhere to the five innovation types suggested by theories of organizational innovation. Instead, the multi-dimensionality of police organizational innovation is demonstrated here.
KW - Innovation
KW - Police
KW - USA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0041161153&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/13639510010342994
DO - 10.1108/13639510010342994
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0041161153
SN - 1363-951X
VL - 23
SP - 303
EP - 317
JO - Policing: An International Journal
JF - Policing: An International Journal
IS - 3
ER -