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Competing Values in Public Management

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  • Zeger van der Wal
  • Gjalt de Graaf
  • Alan Lawton

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The main objective of the article is to review relevant literature on (competing) public values in public management and to present a number of perspectives on how to deal with value conflicts in different administrative settings and contexts. We start this symposium with the assumption that value conflicts are prevalent, the public context can be characterized by value pluralism, and instrumental rationality does not seem to be the most useful to understand or improve value conflicts in public governance. This begs the question: what is the best way to study and manage value conflicts? The contributions to this symposium issue approach value conflicts in public governance from different perspectives, within different countries and different administrative and management systems, hoping to contribute to the debate on how to deal with important yet conflicting public values in public management, without pretending to offer a conclusive strategy or approach.This introductory article also presents and reviews the contributions to this symposium issue.

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  • Zeger van der Wal & Gjalt de Graaf & Alan Lawton, 2011. "Competing Values in Public Management," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 331-341, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:13:y:2011:i:3:p:331-341
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2011.554098
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    1. Hans Dijk & Marloes Engen & Jaap Paauwe, 2012. "Reframing the Business Case for Diversity: A Values and Virtues Perspective," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 111(1), pages 73-84, November.
    2. Paolo Esposito & Valerio Brescia & Chiara Fantauzzi & Rocco Frondizi, 2021. "Understanding Social Impact and Value Creation in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Italian Civil Service," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-26, April.
    3. Ritsche Anne Kloosterman & Wijnand Veeneman & Jan Peter van der Hoek, 2020. "Sustainable Societal Infrastructures: A Resilient Approach to Prevent Conflicting Claims of Drinking Water and Other Infrastructures," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-13, January.

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