Leadership, Accountability and Public Value: Resolving a Problem in “New Governance”?

Organizations, Policies, and the Roots of Public Value Failure: The Case of For‐Profit Higher Education

“…Perhaps not coincidentally, a number of important public value studies include dual policy‐organization considerations. Examples include Spano's () research on management control systems to create public value, Wallis and Gregory's () research on leadership and public values, and Andersen and colleagues’ () work on organizational design principles and governance public values. However, none of these studies examines directly how organizations and policy both independently and sometimes interactively function to create public value failure.…”

Public Value: Recovering the Ethical for Public Sector Managers

“…Viewed as an exercise in pragmatism grounded in a pluralist account of politics, then, some of the challenges aimed at public value (Rhodes & Wanna 2007) and, arguably, some of the praise (Stoker, 2006;Wallis & Gregory, 2009) are misplaced due to a misinterpretation of the exercise in which Moore is engaged. While encapsulating a normative theory of liberal politics, public value is at once also a theory of ethical behavior for public managers grounded in the procedure and half-successes that policy implementation is, rather than being a theory of politics and administration per se.…”

“…While the above controversies have fallen largely within the realm of normative theory (for exceptions, see Wallis & Gregory, 2009;Rhodes & Wanna, 2009, pp. 173-181) the idea of public value is also to be found in various strands of public administration rhetoric and practice in a variety of contexts.…”

Trading off public values in High-Speed Rail development in China

“…' values is built and developed based on Western experience and evidence, which admits the existence of value pluralism and aims at exploring the tensions between values (see, for example, Jorgensen, 1999;Jorgensen and Bozeman, 2002;Thatcher and Rein, 2004;O'Flynn, 2007;Wallis and Gregory, 2009). It allows researchers to look at various values together and to investigate the mechanisms through which they influence each other.…”