Factors enabling public organisations to engage in open government data-driven co-creation

Vrbek, Sanja (author), Jukić, Tina (author)

Purpose: This article explores the concept of open government data (OGD)-driven co-creation, which combines the principles of OGD and co-creation to stimulate innovation and create public value. It focuses specifically on the organisational characteristics and capacities that enable public organisations to engage effectively in OGD-based co-creation. Design/Methodology/Approach: Existing literature has primarily examined drivers and barriers from the perspective of data publication capabilities, while less attention has been paid to the capacities required to use OGD co-creatively. This study therefore seeks to identify the organisational features and capacities that enable public organisations to engage in OGD-driven co-creation as constructive partners. To this end, it employs a systematic literature review, synthesising findings from two distinct but related bodies of research: one focusing on OGD implementation and the other on OGD-driven co-creation. Findings: The results suggest that the capacity of public organisations to publish open data is a necessary but not sufficient condition for engaging in OGD-based co-creation. Effective engagement in such practices requires deeper organisational transformation. Specifically, public organisations must adopt co-creation as a strategic orientation, embrace a service-dominant logic, use agile and participatory approaches, and invest in building trust, leadership, and employee capabilities to support collaborative innovation based on OGD. Practical Implications: The study identifies and synthesises organisation-al factors that serve as preconditions for public organisations to take a constructive and active role in OGD-driven co-creation. It offers insights into the types of internal reform and capacity-building needed to prepare public organisations to co-create within open data ecosystems. Originality/Value: The article represents an initial attempt to systematically synthesise the organisational prerequisites for OGD-driven co-creation. As such, it provides a basis for further research on the development of an integrated framework for organisational readiness for OGD-driven co-creation, as well as practical tools for its assessment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: barriers, co-creation, drivers, open government data, public organisations, OGD
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.05.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 33-61
• Numbering: Vol. 24, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-184148
• UDC: 004.6:35
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2026.1.02
• COBISS.SI-ID: 281844995
• Publication date in RUL: 01.07.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Shortened title: CEPAR
• Publisher: Fakulteta za upravo
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Dejavniki, ki javnim organizacijam omogočajo soustvarjanje z odprtimi podatki javnega sektorja

Abstract

Namen: prispevek obravnava koncept soustvarjanja, ki temelji na odprtih podatkih javnega sektorja (OPJS) in združuje načela OPJS ter soustvarjanja z namenom spodbujanja inovacij in ustvarjanja javne vrednosti. Posebej se osredotoča na organizacijske značilnosti in zmogljivosti, ki javnim organizacijam omogočajo učinkovito vključevanje v soustvarjanje na podlagi OPJS. Zasnova/metodologija/pristop: dosedanja literatura je spodbujevalne in zaviralne dejavnike večinoma preučevala z vidika zmogljivosti za objavljanje OPJS, manj pozornosti pa je namenila zmogljivostim, potrebnim za njihovo soustvarjalno uporabo. Študija zato opredeljuje organizacijske značilnosti, ki javnim organizacijam omogočajo, da se v soustvarjanje na podlagi OPJS vključujejo kot konstruktivni partnerji. V ta namen je bil izveden sistematičen pregled literature ter analiza ugotovitev dveh ločenih, vendar povezanih raziskovalnih sklopov: (1) o OPJS in (2) o soustvarjanju na podlagi OPJS. Rezultati: rezultati kažejo, da je zmogljivost javnih organizacij za objavljanje OPJS nujna, vendar sama po sebi ne zadošča za soustvarjanje s temi podatki. Za učinkovito sodelovanje v takih praksah je potrebna globlja organizacijska preobrazba. To pomeni, da morajo javne organizacije soustvarjanje sprejeti kot strateško usmeritev, slediti storitveno-dominantni logiki (angl. service-dominant logic), uporabljati agilne in participativne pristope ter krepiti zaupanje, vodenje in kompetence zaposlenih, ki omogočajo sodelovalne inovacije na podlagi OPJS. Praktične implikacije: študija opredeljuje in sintetizira organizacijske dejavnike, ki javnim organizacijam omogočajo, da prevzamejo konstruktivno in aktivno vlogo v pobudah soustvarjanja na podlagi OPJS. Hkrati ponuja vpogled v notranje reforme in krepitev zmogljivosti, ki so potrebne, da bi bile javne organizacije pripravljene na soustvarjanje v ekosistemih OPJS. Izvirnost/vrednost: prispevek predstavlja prvi poskus sistematične sinteze organizacijskih predpogojev za soustvarjanje na podlagi OPJS. S tem zagotavlja podlago za nadaljnje raziskave, usmerjene v razvoj celostnega okvira organizacijske pripravljenosti za soustvarjanje na podlagi OPJS in praktičnih orodij za njeno ocenjevanje.

• Keywords: zaviralni dejavniki, soustvarjanje, spodbujevalni dejavniki, odprti podatki javnega sektorja, javne organizacije