Affiliation:
1. Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Abstract
The public management literature has failed to capture the public sector manager operations in single holistic framework, thus inhibiting the development of a more complete theory of leadership that drives public value. This paper develops a core typology of arenas of public value creation, based on the locus of interaction (internal or external to the government organization) and the public value purpose (trading or policy development). Four arenas are described, illustrating that public sector managers in complex policy areas traverse all forms of institutional structure including market, hierarchy, and hybrid. The typology developed and discussed is an attempt to provide more precision in characterizing the nature of policy leadership. Building on the public value work of Moore (1995; 2013; 2014), the typology enables theorizing on the role and nature of leadership in driving public value.
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