New governance concepts for digitalization: Challenges and potentials

Abstract

AbstractThe term “governance” is generally understood to mean the steering and coordination of actions and its broadest definition encompasses various forms and their processes (cf. Gailing/ Hamedinger 2019). They range from official, i.e. state-run, top-down steering and coordination to forms of self-steering without state actors (Mayntz/Scharpf 1995, Blatter 2007). This understanding of governance is grounded in social theory and differs from a narrower understanding sthat emphasizes the shift from state forms of steering and coordination.