Policy innovation and public organizational performance : a moderated mediation analysis of Taiwan's Bookstart program

This paper attempts to explore the association between adoption of policy innovation and public organization performance, with the case study of innovative Bookstart Programme in Taiwan. This research employed the method of moderated mediation analysis, as we treat organizational commitment as mediator and mandatory/voluntary public libraries as moderator in our SEM model. Our empirical results suggested that while mediator is insignificant, it does facilitate the association between adoption of policy innovation and public performance. Our SEM model also revealed that mandatory adoption of policy innovation does moderate the relation between organizational commitment and public performance with significance.