Public value: to each their own?

Bruno Féral () and Benjamin Dreveton ()
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Bruno Féral: CEREGE [Poitiers, La Rochelle] - Centre de recherche en gestion - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - ULR - La Rochelle Université - Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School
Benjamin Dreveton: IAE Poitiers - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Poitiers - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, CEREGE [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche en gestion - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers

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Abstract: This paper studies the role of elected representatives in inter-organizational processes aimed at measuring public value. Specifically, it aims to offer a better understanding of the way collaboration between public managers, elected representatives, civil society and scientists can be derailed by the extraneous constraints borne by elected representatives. We explore the relationship between public value accounting, the authorizing environment and the role of the public manager (Moore, 2013) and question the democratic and managerial implications of the ability of elected representatives, as ostensible spokespeople for the authorizing environment, to unilaterally interrupt projects aimed at collaboratively define, measure, and assess public value creation. To do so, we mobilize Actor-Network Theory (Akrich, Callon & Latour, 2006) to describe specific human actors – elected representatives – engaging in a specific behavior: dissidence, by comparing two cases of "public value assessment failure" (Dreveton & Rocher, 2010, 2014; Féral, 2022). Factors such as different time scales and perspectives on public value and its assessment are shown to be important to understand such situations.

Keywords: Public value; Co-creation; Value destruction; Local government; Actor-Network Theory; Dissidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04-15
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Published in IRSPM 2024: Hybrid futures for public governance and management, Tampere University, Apr 2024, Tampere, Finland

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