scholarly journals How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sørensen ◽  
John Bryson ◽  
Barbara Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Public Value ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Public Leaders

Governance researchers are increasingly interested in how co-creation can contribute to promoting public value in contemporary liberal democracies. While many have already argued for the potential benefits of employing co-creation in government strategies aiming to enhance public value, few have considered the implications of such a strategy for public leadership. Drawing on recent strands of theory on leadership and management, we specify how public leaders can use co-creation as a tool to achieve policy goals, and we illustrate this specification by showing how politicians and public and non-profit managers perform the public leadership of co-created public value in Gentofte, Denmark and Minneapolis‐St Paul, USA. The main proposition is that this kind of public leadership does not only involve a strategic effort to engage, inspire and mobilise actors with relevant governance assets ‐ including legitimacy, authority and capabilities ‐ but also to align their understandings of what is valuable for the public.

Leadership in the Age of Governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Eva Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Extensive Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Interactive Governance ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Government Reforms ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Public Leaders

Building on an extensive literature on interactive governance, Chapter 2 explains what it entails to be in the age of governance and scrutinizes the implications for the performance of public leadership. A key message is that public leadership increasingly takes on the form of metagovernance, i.e. the governance of governance. As meta-governors, public leaders govern self-regulating actors through different hands-off and hands-on regulation methods. Forty years of government reforms have gradually restructured the public sector to support the performance of metagovernance, and inspiration came from different strands of neo-institutionalism. Metagovernance research has mainly focused on managerial metagovernance, however, while paying scant attention to political metagovernance and the role of politicians as leaders of interactive governance processes. Recent strands of political leadership theory provide important insights for developing a notion of political metagovernance and get to grips with the role of politicians in the age of governance.

What is Public about Public Leadership? Exploring Implicit Public Leadership Theories

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Vogel ◽  
Laura Werkmeister
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Implicit Leadership ◽  
Implicit Leadership Theories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Public Leaders

Abstract While scholarship on public leadership has recently gained momentum in public administration, it is unclear how researchers should account for the “public” in public leadership. We shed new light on this issue by introducing the approach of Implicit Leadership Theories (ILTs) to the field of public administration. This socio-cognitive approach suggests that people’s everyday, rather than scholarly, theories about the characteristics of leaders provide important explanations of how they respond to leadership situations. We investigate whether people hold Implicit Public Leadership Theories (IPLTs) and explore how these images of public leaders contrast with generic ILTs. We extract these taxonomies from data gathered in a survey experiment in Germany (N = 1,072). Results show that IPLTs have overlaps with generic ILTs but are unique in terms of rule abidance and innovation-orientation. In contrast, charismatic aspects of leadership only figure in generic ILTs. The structure of ILTs, both generic and public, is surprisingly stable across the subsamples of public and non-public employees. We discuss how the findings may assist public management scholars in the development of explicit theories of public leadership and derive a research agenda based on a socio-cognitive approach.

The Leadership and Management of Public Services Reform in Scotland

2020 ◽  
pp. 404-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Connolly ◽  
Robert Pyper
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performance Framework ◽  
National Performance

This chapter provides an overview of key developments in public services reform since the SNP came to power in Scotland in 2007. Drawing on the public value leadership and network governance literature, the chapter argues that the combination of an outcomes-focused approach (pursued via the SNP Government’s National Performance Framework), a commitment to an ‘empowerment agenda’, together with the challenges of national ‘policy distraction’ towards constitutional matters have served to undermine attempts to engender national public value leadership within a network governance context. The chapter draws on interviews with public sector actors and a range of policy documents and academic commentaries. It concludes by identifying opportunities for establishing co-ordinated leadership structures and highlights the political, constitutional, and public finance challenges that need to be addressed in this context. The article identifies key governance lessons for devolved polities based on the Scottish case.

scholarly journals Nýjar hæfniskröfur til stjórnenda ríkisstofnana

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Árelía Eydís Guðmundsdóttir ◽  
Sólmundur Már Jónsson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Research Article ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Leaders ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research article contributes to leadership in the public sector by investigating the effect of a new policy for public leaders, introduced by Icelandic authorities in the summer of 2019. In the policy, the skillsets that are considered fundamental for public leaders in Iceland were defined. In this article, this policy of public leadership is analyzed, as well as its criteria and context, in order to answer the question if it reflects public leadership in organizations. Also, new leadership training and development is lacking which is not in accordance to the new public policy on leadership. Qualitative data was used and in-depth interviews were conducted with ten new public leaders. The main conclusions indicate that the new public leaders thought that the new public policy was relevant to their work. However, the participants felt they needed more training and mentoring when they were hired. Thus, there is a difference between the policy and its execution. The Covid-19 epidemic has, of course, dramatically impacted their working environment. The practical value of this research is in shedding a light on real assignments that public leaders face.

Has public leadership as we know it reached the end of its shelf life? Exploring leadership styles in the 21st century

2020 ◽  
pp. 014473942097473
Author(s):  
Liezel Lues
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Qualitative Review ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Traditional Leadership ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Public Leaders ◽  
Broad Understanding

In this article, the aim is to question the relevance of well-known public leadership styles to the 21st century. The aim is buoyed by the notion that traditional leadership styles, even more so conventional ways of leading, will no longer ensure success, as 21st-century risks have had a considerable impact on the role and disposition of the public leader. The article draws on a qualitative review of academic papers and articles, documentary materials, surveys, and reports. An analysis of this material is used to gain a broad understanding of how public leadership styles are transforming under the impetus of the 21st century. The discussion is based on the challenges that public leaders are likely to face over the next decade, the pacesetters for public leaders to transform in the 21st century, and recommendations guiding public leadership styles for the 21st century.

scholarly journals Creating Public Innovation Through Public Values (Public Value) Case Study In Education Department City Of Surabaya

2019 ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Supriyanto Supriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Public Value ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
Public Sector Innovation

This article will examine in depth the concept of public sector innovation, the process of creating public sector innovation and whether it is based on the public value. As a study material the author specializes in innovations created by the Surabaya City Education Office because there are seventeen innovations produced. Most innovations in the public sector are created as a reaction to a crisis when new leaders want to show that they are capable. Consequently the public sector innovation is not able to increase organizational capacity so that innovation tends to be unsustainable. Innovation will stop when the initiator is gone, so visionary leadership and innovation are needed to have compatibility with the system outside of itself and in harmony with relevant regulations and institutions. Innovation will remain sustainable without being influenced by the change of public leadership if it is sourced from public value because public innovations that are created from public values will remain strong to defend and the tendency is increased due to community support.

Big Data and the Economics of TV Broadcasting. Where is the Public Value?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Clemens Murschetz
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Value ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tv Broadcasting

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Potenziale und Risiken von Big Data für das Leitmedium Fernsehen. Er nimmt dabei eine betont kritisch-normative Perspektive aus Sicht der Medienökonomie ein und analysiert diese anhand des Beispiels Konvergenzfernsehen. Eine der vielen Dimensionen von Big Data ist nämlich die Analyse des Nutzungsverhaltens einer Vielzahl von Konsumenten. Big Data-Dienste verwenden die Analyseergebnisse nicht nur dazu, individuelle Filmempfehlungen zu geben, sondern entscheiden vielmehr darüber, welche Inhalte überhaupt in das Portfolio eines Anbieters aufgenommen bzw. produziert werden. Auch wenn diese Dienste zu einer Optimierung von TV-Vermarktung führen, ist bis heute umstritten, inwiefern Big Data auch Mehrwert für Nutzer generiert. Auf der Sollseite stehen Überwachung, die Frageder Individualisierung und Rationalisierung des Konsums und generell die Kommodifizierung des Mediums.

GREEN BONDS AS A NEW FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
M. V. DUBROVA ◽  
◽  
N. N. ZHILINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Green Finance ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

The relevance of the article is determined by the fact that in Russia there is no effective mechanism of state support for the activities of non-profit organizations in the field of “green Finance”. The role of non-profit organizations is leveled, which can become a serious help in solving economic problems, in particular, the problems of recycling and processing of secondary raw materials, the placement of industrial waste and household garbage, and landscaping of large megacities. The main financial burden in the field of “green economy” falls on States and large enterprises. Meanwhile, we cannot ignore the important role of non-profit organizations that can not only draw attention to environmental problems to the public, but also offer their own measures to solve environmental problems. In this regard, it becomes relevant to consider the participation of non-profit organizations in the implementation of environmental projects by attracting “green Finance”.

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