Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda

New development: ‘Appreciate–Engage–Facilitate’—The role of public managers in value creation in public service ecosystems

“…It is hard for public service managers to influence or change the institutional level. However, it is essential that they appreciate it and its impact on the public services that they manage (Bozeman, 2019;Huijbregts et al, 2021).…”

Valuation tools and politicians’ willingness to sell public real estate: a survey experiment

“…As the main function of public real estate is to support the primary processes of government, assets are the physical embodiment of policy fields or policy issues, some being more politically salient than others. For example, one could argue that office buildings for public employees at the local authority are less politically salient than buildings for the reception of international refugees within a municipality -especially in a European context where the refugee crisis has dominated the media for some time now (Hatton 2017). Reasoning from the type of real estate asset, being either politically salient or non-politically salient, a relevant cognitive bias to examine is salience bias.…”

“…In 2015 and 2016, during the political term of the respondents, Europe experienced an unprecedented influx of refugees, particularly due to war and terror in Syria. This influx caused a migration crisis in many European countries, including Belgium, and as such, the accommodation of asylum seekers became, and still is, a salient policy issue (Hatton 2017), that relates to values such as solidarity, humanity and safety. Belgium has so-called 'reception places' in place for refugees awaiting asylum, which include housing owned and managed by municipalities and PCSWs -thus making it a suitable operationalization for the vignettes.…”

“…Answering this question offers new and significant information for public management theory, research and practice. First, this study adds to scholarly work on Public Value Governance, which explicitly calls for more empirical research into how diverse government actors deal with the assessment of (public) values for given policy issues (e.g., Bozeman 2019;Bryson, Crosby, and Bloomberg 2014;Fukumoto and Bozeman 2019;Hartley et al 2017;Nabatchi 2012;Huijbregts, George, and Bekkers 2021). Moreover, this study adds to scholarly work on Behavioural Public Administration, which explicitly calls for more empirical research into how political decision-making is impacted by different strategy and performance tools (e.g., George 2020; James et al 2020).…”

Shaping cultural participation through social media

“…To frame and interpret the findings, the study draws on the strategy‐as‐practice (SaP) as conceptual frame, where strategy is seen as a socially accomplished activity (Jarzabkowski, 2005), structured around “practices,” “practitioners,” and “praxes” (Jarzabkowski, 2005; Whittington, 1996). The choice was considered appropriate to capture the heterogeneity that emerge in the “doing” of strategy, that is, how practitioners arrive at strategy formulation and implementation (Huijbregts et al., 2021; Jarzabkowski & Paul Spee, 2009). This is a relevant perspective in our context given that social media strategy in museums is mediated by the adoption of emergent structures of social media use.…”