Organizational silos and bureaucratic routines: drivers, variation, and change

Abstract

The term “bureaucratic silos” is widely used as a battle term to criticize administrative practices. The literature on “public sector innovation” and “collaborative innovation” considers breaking up these silos as a key to improving the quality of public services and enhancing problem-solving. Widely used as a metaphor, scholarship has neither conceptually developed nor empirically explored “bureaucratic silos”. This panel sets out to explore “organizational silos”, their conceptual properties and underlying drivers. We welcome papers that seek to explore cross-sectional and longitudinal variation in the prevalence of “silos” or explore measurement issues. How “silos” relate to other theoretical concepts, such as “bureaucratic routines”, is another important topic that papers could explore.

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