Navigating tensions in co-production: A missing link in leadership for public value

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brown, Prudence R.; Head, Brian W.
• 署名单位: University of Queensland; University of Queensland
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12394
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 250-263
• 关键词: management; POLICY

摘要

New forms of public leadership are needed to design and implement co-production of public value. We draw on narrative analysis to explore the barriers to developing the capacity for co-production of public value in disadvantaged and vulnerable Indigenous communities and find that existing norms not only crowd out efforts at reform, but can work against them. In particular, we find that upward accountability and a focus on expert knowledge are the most problematic for co-production of public value. We focus on how more traditional practices of public administration mediated the achievements of public leaders in their co-production efforts when Australian governments introduced strategies for partnership with Indigenous communities for services design and delivery. The analysis suggests that creating a broader enabling environment of supportive logics would allow public leaders to engage more productively with inherent tensions between old and new ways of working.