myAIPMWhere to for public value? Taking stock and moving on
ANZSOG
"Public value has become something of a catch-all in public management and administration. A paper in the International Journal of Public Administration, by ANZSOG and University of Melbourne Professor of Public Management Janine O’Flynn, reflects on the development, debate and future prospects for public value.
The genesis of public value
Public value developed in the mid-1990s as part of the quest to find a strategic approach guiding public managers in their roles. Professor Mark Moore from the Harvard Kennedy School is considered the architect of the approach.
In conceptualising public value, he drew in the following elements of strategy theory in the private sector:
- the importance of the environment in which managers operate
- operational capacity to get things done
- articulating the value that managers sought to create.
Moore saw public management as conceiving and implementing public policies that realise the potential of a given political and institutional setting. He later reframed this as creating public value."
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Where to for public value? Taking stock and moving on, ANZSOG, 2021