Assessing the capacity for public value creation within leadership theories: Raising the argument

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru V. Roman ◽  
Thomas McWeeney
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Leadership Perspectives ◽  
The Creation

AbstractIn recent years, public administration has been targeted by multiple reform efforts. In multiple instances, such initiatives have been ideologically couched in public-choice perspectives and entrenched beliefs that government is the problem. One unavoidable consequence of this continued bout of criticism is the fact that government currently has a noticeably decreased capacity of boosting creation of public value. Within this context, there certainly is an important need for approaches that would counterbalance the loss of public value induced by market fundamentalism. This article suggests that leadership, as a concept of theory and practice, due to its partial immunity to the private-public dichotomy, can provide a pragmatic avenue for nurturing public interest and public value within the devolution of governance, a declining trust in government and a diminished governmental capacity to propagate the creation of public value. While this article critically examines and assesses the capacity of different leadership perspectives in terms of creating and maximizing public value, its primary scope is not the provision of definite answers but rather the instigation of a much necessary discussion.

scholarly journals Systematic Review of Public Value

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Sami ◽  
Ahmad Jusoh ◽  
Khalil Md Nor ◽  
Asmara Irfan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Public Sector Organizations

Public value is a new and important concept in the field of public administration. A large number of researchers has focused on the concept of public value during the last 10 years or so. This concept gives a new idea of public management with the theme of people’s first approach to facilitate them. Public value creation is the main concern of public managers in today’s public sector organizations. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 413 articles published on the topic of public value in Scopus index journals from 1995 to 2018. A large number of articles on public value shows the importance of the concept of public value. This systematic literature review reveals that most of the work on public value has been done in developed countries like USA, UK, Australia, and Netherland and developing countries are far behind on the research of public value.

scholarly journals Learning to manage public service organisations better: A scenario for teaching public administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Russ Glennon ◽  
Ian Hodgkinson ◽  
Joanne Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Organisation ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
New Knowledge

In the context of public value, it is argued that there is a need to adopt the learning organisation philosophy to manage public service organisations better. For collaborative work with public sector managers or in management education, a fictitious scenario is presented to develop the concept of the learning organisation as paradox. Faced with multiple and conflicting demands, public managers find it difficult to change organisational behaviour in response to new knowledge. The scenario demonstrates how learning organisation philosophy can be used to translate new knowledge into new behaviours. Key skills required for public managers to exploit the knowledge of all organisational members and confront the challenges of a contested concept, such as public value, are developed and comprise summarising evidence, making judgements, sharing thought processes on a contentious issue, and arriving at a consensus together. Contributions to public administration theory and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Does Co-Production Lead to the Creation of Public Value? Balancing the Dimensions of Public Value Creation in Urban Mobility Planning

2020 ◽  
pp. 009539972095761
Author(s):  
Sylke Jaspers ◽  
Trui Steen
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Creation

Co-production is intended to co-create public value. This article analyzes how co-producers address the tensions that arise among the various dimensions of public value. The article builds on the theory of coping strategies to examine individuals’ coping behaviors. Two urban mobility planning cases are studied in depth. This study finds that co-producers experience various tensions between public value dimensions. Furthermore, co-producers cope with the tensions both according to balancing strategies and trade-off strategies, preferring one value dimension over the other. In addition, the empirical evidence provides examples of circumstances, such as communication, in which a balancing exercise is enhanced.

scholarly journals Resilience in the Context of Pandemics and Disasters: A Framework for Public Governance, Ecosystem Innovation, Co-creation, and Co-production

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Greiciele Macedo Morais ◽  
Henrique Cordeiro Martins ◽  
Valdeci Ferreira Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Theoretical Evidence

This article, through a literature review, explores evidence that public governance positively influences and stimulates the innovation ecosystem, the co-creation, and co-production of resilience in communities that are victims of disasters, shocks, and even pandemic disasters, such as COVID-19. Disaster scenarios of all kinds cause millions of damage to society. The negative impacts of these contexts disasters, shocks, catastrophes, even if pandemic, such as COVID-19, can be greater or lesser, depending on the dysfunctions of governance and the negative barriers to the creation of public policies consistent with the capacity for resilience. Thus, the possible solution to this scenario may be based on public governance, if the pubic governance is instituted in an organized, integrated, and articulated manner. For this purpose, a theoretical conceptual framework of value creation is proposed through public governance that values and stimulates the innovation ecosystem, the co-creation, co-production of value, and a static, hierarchical, and linear structural vision. There is theoretical evidence that public governance can promote resilience in communities that are victims of disasters, shocks, pandemics or disturbances, through an ecosystem of innovation, co-creation and co-production of value. In this regard, at the end of this article, a theoretical-conceptual framework for creating public value is proposed.

Public Administration, Public Choice and the Pathos of Reform

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Choice Approach ◽  
Public Choice Approach

In recent years, several writers using the new political economy or public choice approach to political analysis have sought to improve our understanding of bureaus, bureaucrats and governments and, in some cases, to suggest ways in which their behavior might be “improved” in the public interest. The public choice approach to public administration rejects the so-called sociological or traditional political science approaches with their alleged Parsonian, Weberian, Marxist, historical, institutional or organic biases and limitations in favor of an individualistic, deductive, noninstitutional analysis, which is thought to be more cogent, more fertile in testable hypotheses, more genuinely theoretical and more relevant in terms of reform. Here the view is taken that the pathos of the public choice approach to public administration consists in this: that public choice advocates by virtue of their methodology are fated to “lose” consistently on questions of administrative reform and prescriptive efficacy, even while contributing, potentially importantly, to the scientific understanding of nonmarket, usually public, organizations or “bureaus.”

scholarly journals Convergence of Social Marketing and Public Administration: Democratizing Value Creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Leon M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
The Public

Abstract This article aims to explain the interface between advances in civilization and advances in communication. The article also addresses the inadequacy of public administration literature to explain why communication media is important to its theory and practice. Subsequently, the article explicates why communication media contribute to the public administrator’s ability to improve the quality of democracy. The literature on communication media and public administration provide conceptual data that indicates how communication media continuously contributed to the public administrator’s ability to manage large disparate social-economic units. Network theory and administrative communication theory indicate why communication networks improve institutional effectiveness and efficiency. The literature confirms the need for clarity on how the interface between communication media and public administration increases public value and improves the quality of democracy. Network theory is a viable strategy for increasing the public administrators’ ability to increase public value.

Competing Values in Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeger van der Wal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Equal Importance

Public administration theory and practice are been rife with competing values, and 21st-century trends and challenges create new value dilemmas. Values—standards and qualities that guide behavior and decision making—can compete for attention because they may be of equal importance to the larger public interest that administrative actors are aiming to realize yet adhering to each of them at once is not feasible or possible. Examples are transparency, accountability, equity, effectiveness, efficiency, and legality. Hence, administrative actors have to find ways to manage competing values at an individual and institutional level.

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