Public Value: Conjecture And Refutation, Theory And Ethics

Bligh Grant; Josie A Fisher

Public Value: Conjecture And Refutation, Theory And Ethics

Bligh Grant
, Josie A Fisher

UNE Business School

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This paper explores the theory of Public Value and the debate it has created in public management theory and practice. Public Value was first articulated by Mark Moore (1995). Scholars of public administration have argued, on the one hand, that Public Value can 'solve the puzzle' of 'balancing democracy and efficiency' in democracies (Stoker, 2006a; Wallis and Gregory, 2009) and on the other, that it constitutes a dangerous return to the justification for public managers as 'Platonic guardians' of political systems (Rhodes and Wanna, 2007). We argue that this debate neglects that Moore provides an ethical foundation for public managers to exercise autonomy in decision-making; thereby giving them a renewed legitimacy, importance and confidence when managing for unknowable futures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
Editors	B Gurd
Place of Publication	Brisbane, Australia
Publisher	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Pages	1-15
ISBN (Print)	1877040827
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	ANZAM 2010: 24th Annual Australian New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures - Adelaide, Australia Duration: 6 Dec 2010 → 10 Dec 2010

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Conference	ANZAM 2010: 24th Annual Australian New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures
City	Adelaide, Australia
Period	6/12/10 → 10/12/10

Keywords

Organisation and Management Theory
Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement

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Grant, B & Fisher, JA 2010, Public Value: Conjecture And Refutation, Theory And Ethics. in B Gurd (ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1-15, ANZAM 2010: 24th Annual Australian New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures, Adelaide, Australia, 6/12/10. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7931>

Public Value: Conjecture And Refutation, Theory And Ethics. / Grant, Bligh; Fisher, Josie A.
Proceedings of the 24th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference. ed. / B Gurd. Brisbane, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2010. p. 1-15.

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