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Despite an abundance of research reaffirming biodiversity's importance to the health of the planet and society, species continue to go extinct at an alarming rate. Why has continued research on the value of biodiversity not had the intended effect and what can be done about it? We considered biodiversity loss as a public value failure and the result of a misalignment between the logic of inquiry (which guides scientists) and the logic of action (which guides practitioners). We drew lessons from our own research to propose the creation of a national biodiversity strategy designed to link the logic of inquiry with the logic of action and coordinate the production of actionable conservation science and informed conservation action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigated the essential elements for building a public governance model in Brazil, with the objective of proposing an analytical framework with contributions from different theoretical lenses. The concepts and debates emerging from the literature were analyzed along with the normative instruments that guide the principles of public governance in Brazil, and, finally, empirical research was carried out in a Brazilian public organization (Brazilian Navy). The study found that, in the Brazilian context, external control bodies have been playing the role of giving rise to an increase in governance levels within the scope of public administration, restricting at first its application to the perspective of control, and involving, to a lesser extent, the concepts of governance as instruments for achieving politicaladministrative effectiveness. This result corroborates the need to develop more comprehensive proposals related to public value creation involving the structuring of both political and administrative bodies in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to establish human talent management strategies in the public sector. The research was developed under the quantitative research approach, two (2) instruments were applied aimed at describing the practices implemented in human management. The triangulation of the data made it possible to highlight the importance of articulating organizational management, labor flexibility processes, participatory culture and human development as fundamental pillars to generate value in public organizations; However, to face significant challenges in the Public Function, the insertion and appropriation of technology, the automation of operational tasks, the inclusion of information tools that will allow leveraging processes of change and transformation at the service of citizens are necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study had the objective of understand how public services provided through the Meu INSS platform can create or deconstruct public value to citizens. The study adopted a qualitative approach to understand and describe the public value generated by Meu INSS platform. The data were collected through interviews with 10 INSS users. The data were analyzed through content analysis. The results indicate that Meu INSS platform was an important technological actor in the construction of value to users, mainly due to the agility, practicality and convenience of consuming the INSS services in the digital sphere. In addition, the negative experiences of users with the services provided at INSS agencies increased the importance that citizens attributed to the platform. However, the deconstruction of value through the INSS's digital services also took place, mainly because of the difficulty of using the platform, technical errors, slowness on the platform and inadequate operational support. Finally, this research provided a dualistic assessment of the positive and negative attributes of the digital public service provided by the INSS, showing that the meaning of value perceived by citizens was dynamically constructed and deconstructed during the use of the digital public service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

That policy should be evidence‐based has become a widely accepted dictum, especially in public health, where evidence‐based policy is strongly emphasized. Yet, most public health controversies arise because there is a conflict over values, which facts alone cannot resolve. Moreover, promoting population‐based health interventions requires the art of political actors to arouse public support. In discussing this tension in public health, studies often frame value conflicts as a barrier to rational decision‐making rather than viewing value considerations as an inherent part of democratic policymaking. We argue that by failing to engage value‐conflicts directly, public health professionals actually stymie evidence translation, which requires public and political buy‐in. We suggest a two‐by‐two framework that seeks to make value concerns more explicit in public health policymaking by breaking out policy controversies and alternatives along two dimensions—factual debates and value debates, creating four categories: uncontested alternatives, value debates, fact debates, and contested alternatives. We demonstrate that the policies that are most likely to be contested are those with a strong value conflict and where the evidence‐base is less solid. We also show that the framework is dynamic: fact and value conflicts are neither static nor inevitable. Rather, interested actors use both fact and value to try to push issues from contested to uncontested and vice‐versa. We conclude by demonstrating how the framework can help specify the role of both value and fact debates in public health policymaking through examples from U.S. public health policy controversies, including during the present COVID‐19 crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the idea of public value as a factor of optimization and to produce positive effects for whom it may concern, this article intends to analyze the generation of values related to the purchasing sector from the perspective of the collaboration of internal actors and aims to elucidate how internal collaboration contributes to the improvement of purchasing results. Using qualitative analysis in the form of a case study carried out in a centralized purchasing unit of a county, two collaborative purchasing practices were established through bibliographic research and unstructured interviews, therefore their impacts on the production of public values were defined. The results showed that the higher the levels of implementation of collaborative practices, the better the procurement results will be in terms of efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness, establishing a positive relationship between internal collaboration and value production in public procurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To understand the public value that the website Operação Serenata de Amor [Love Serenade Operation], based on open government data, can generate for society. Originality/value: Researchers are investigating the generation of public value through digitally transformed public services, i.e., public value directly generated by the government. However, the literature still needs a better understanding of this phenomenon through digital technologies, based on open public data, developed by non-governmental actors, such as the Operação Serenata de Amor website. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a qualitative approach to understand and describe the public value generated by Operação Serenata de Amor. The data were collected through citizen comments about the website's initiatives on social media and in articles published on the internet. The data were analyzed through content analysis. Findings: The Operação Serenata de Amor generated public value by doing, facilitating and stimulating social control. It was also identified that the site added value to society by increasing a citizen's ability to exercise social control. However, this work was limited to analyzing data collected on the internet. In future studies, researchers may collect data through interviews with citizens to understand, with more details, the public value generated by the website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data quality involves a set of characteristics, values, and expressions that are built iteratively. Open government data (OGD) shares the qualities of Big Data regarding volume, speed, accuracy, and value, and the purpose of achieving stakeholders' reuse stands out. This study uses a bibliographic review to identify the relationships among big data, open data, data quality, and value. We conclude that OGD, a recent trend, encourages collaboration and citizen participation and enables reusing data to pursue public and private innovation. Ensuring data quality makes it possible to obtain value from its reuse and generate Economic Value, Commercial Value, Social Value, and Public Value. Consumers require a solid basis of trust before using public information, which requires a data quality assurance process that strengthens and intensifies the inherent value of the data and activates its potential in different contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article shows how through the methodology called Actors Mapping methodology the construction of an innovation was achieved. This in turn led to the alignment, articulation and adjustment of the roles, functions, responsibilities, and agendas of the strategic actors and institutions that develop Science and Technology, and Innovation processes (CTeI) in Colombia, and adhered to the principles and ethic, bioethics and scientific integrity guidelines. The Governance Table is one of the four work tables that looks at the implementation of the Research Ethic, Bioethics, and Scientific Integration Policy in the country. It does so from the point of view of a collective, inclusive, and plural exercise, and is led by the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry. It manages to make sense of the generated synergies between the sector actors (Governance model), through a matrix structure, actors mapping, that reaches the understanding of the context which is developed by the policy, from a plural vision, and under the dialogue, participation and discernment context, in a real game of public value generation. The methodology developed can be considered an exercise in public innovation and social innovation, since these are the public innovation conditions fundamentals for its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governance reflects the transformation of relations between government and society, starting with the emergence of a more active role for civil society in public action by detaching it from traditional dependency from government. However, although governance as a concept has been used vigorously in the discursive strategies of the doctrines of New Public Management (NPM) in conjunction with discourses of innovation as a justifying purpose; it is also possible to trace discourses that can be grouped in a framework called Post-New Public Management (P-NGP) which proposes new conceptions about governance and innovation; Conceptions that articulate a shift in the ways of conceiving and understanding organizational forms, public management and the State itself in its interaction with society. This paper analyzes the changes in the concept of governance brought by the P-NGP, which implies taking as a starting point the governance descriptions of NPM discursive areas, and then contrasting these descriptions with references to the P-NGP. This implies a reflection on the reconstruction of the dynamics of public action that, from the approach of governance based on P-NGP discussion referents, propose new logics for the implementation of policies from public innovation, such as the emerging case of public and private organizational forms like crowdsourcing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes the influence of management control on the public value that is generated in the services dependent on the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile. Surveys with a sample size of 375 officials were applied, using a Likert-type polytomous scale. The results are analyzed by the structural equations method based on partial least squares. The creation of public value is explained in 32.5% by the direct relationship with the achievement of challenging results, which, at the same time, depends significantly on the development of competencies, management focused on the management control, allocation of rewards and a culture of continuous improvement. Thus, the systemic management of these variables will promote the creation of public value, where management control will allow public decision makers to know and proactively learn, according to what is happening at all times, in the processes considered critical for the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the relationship between the concepts of Social Innovation and Public Innovation. The article shows and expands on the links between Public Innovation and Social Innovation, also analysing the way in which such links are produced, especially through the Governance processes and the Public Administration Innovation. Finally, the paper emphasises the idea that all public innovation represents a particular form of social innovation and vice versa. Social innovation can contribute to improving the ways in which public innovation is undertaken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the public debate there is a couple of concepts that seem to dominate the landscape. It means, they apparently do not permit the presence of other member on the ground: Welfare State and Minimal State. Each of them has a specific administrative model: the Welfare State corresponds to the Traditional Public Administration (TPA); the Minimal State corresponds to New Public Administration (NPM). In addition, on the one hand, the interventionist model had a strong theoretical background with the complex of social-democrat ideas. On the other hand, the libertarian model has had a powerful system of ideas. This paper challenges the perception that there is just one binomial of models. In contrast, there is a Third Way which in the administrative dimension corresponds to governance through community networks. And they both have, as I will show, a heavy support of ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La investigación se centra en analizar la interacción en la gestión de comunicación online para generar valor y para ello analiza las webs y la participación en redes sociales generalistas de las televisiones públicas europeas. Se presta atención preferente a los contenidos corporativos y a la información emitida por las cadenas públicas sobre si mismas para aproximarse a sus niveles de transparencia, de honestidad y de compromiso social que influyen en su reputación como corporación. Se revisan las características de su modelo de interrelación con las audiencias externas y se identifican y analizan los documentos o protocolos de normas o recomendaciones de gestión de actuación en redes sociales (guidelines) para públicos internos. El objetivo es identificar políticas de gestión de social media en entornos públicos y, preferentemente de las principales cadenas de televisión europeas, y analizar su contribución a la creación de lo púbico como valor asociado a su imagen. Para el análisis de interactividad se trabaja sobre una muestra de siete emisoras: RTVE (España), France Televisions (Francia), RAI (Italia), BBC (Gran Bretaña), RTP (Portugal) y ARD/ ZDF (Alemania) Para el estudio de las guidelines se recurre, además, a una comparativa de las televisiones europeas con las guías de entidades referenciales en el ámbito de la comunicación en Estados Unidos y Canadá: NPR (EEUU), CBC (Canadá), las agencias de noticias Associated Press y Reuters, y los diarios The Washington Post y Los Ángeles Times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What does public sector management provide to society and how can it be measured? This article aims at identifying what a public leader should take into account in order to plan an ad hoc assessment of the intangible public value of public management. Methodology combines theory analysis with empirical observations. Conceptual relations are explored in the literature of assessment and evaluation in public relations and corporate communication, public sector intangible assets, and the stream of studies titled Public Value, in order to elaborate the criteria to analyze practical cases of public value creation in public administrations. The analysis reveals that assessing public management with the approach of intangible public value implies looking at both organizational behavior as well as at the society's feedback; it also enables calibrating the gap that there might exist between real government performance and what people perceive of that performance, as well as exploring causes for this gap. Finally, and subsequently, the article elucidates the levels, areas, and foci that a public leader should take into account in assessing public management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a characterization of water services as public services which purpose should be to generate public value. The case of the Monterrey's Metropolitan Area is analyzed; this case shows the complexity in creating public values for the social, financial and environmental sustainability of water services. Particularly, we analyze universal access, equity for consumption and affordability of water tariffs as public values for the social sustainability of water services. One of the main findings is that efficient water services utilities not necessarily generate public values. The case study shows a clear differentiation in water services access between urban and rural areas; different levels of consumption by income level; affordability; and a persistent loss of water in the water networks. All these aspects affect significantly the generation of public value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public value creation through digital government is no longer an option. It is necessary that digital service be implemented according to citizens' perception and contextual and social factors. However, public value concept is intricate and still insufficiently used in both public services delivered by government and researches. The goal of this study is to explore public value in digital services delivery through a systematic review of national and international literature. This work contributes with a public value concept based on a repertory of meanings and fundamentals within the national context. We understand that a public value concept that is more adequate to digital services is the value produced by government and perceived by citizens because of the digital services adoption. This study can contribute to create opportunities to a new research line in public value in digital government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science is facing a multi-faceted crisis: in terms of quality, of public value, of political legitimacy. To a significant degree, these problems find their origin in the widely held belief that unfettered scientific curiosity provides the best starting point or departure for solving both scienti¡c and social problems. In this article I show how this belief has contributed to a scienti¡c enterprise whose exponentially growing productivity is increasingly decoupled from meeting the standards of high quality or the needs of society. I contrast the ideals of unfettered scientific inquiry with real stories of how science, innovation, and problem solving came together in the institutional arrangements of the “military-industrial complex” after World War II. Through an array of contemporary and historical examples stronger links, I show how stronger links between the context of knowledge creation, and the context of problem solving, provides the pathway along which science can recover both its integrity and its commitment to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En 2014 la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión (UER) presentaba un informe de valores con el fin de establecer un marco de indicadores intangibles de autoevaluación para los medios de servicio público. Los indicadores de valor e impacto de los servicios públicos y organizaciones se han convertido en uno de los retos de las actuales agendas de gestión. El presente artículo establece una propuesta que se nutre de la herramienta de la UER, compara y evalúa las estrategias de rendición de cuentas de tres radiotelevisiones autonómicas: EITB, CCMA y CRTVG. Los resultados evidencian que, aunque las tres corporaciones reflejan datos financieros, de gestión y gobernanza en sus páginas corporativas e informes anuales, y aunque incrementan las medidas de transparencia con respecto al ámbito institucional y el mercado de la competencia, resultan aún insuficientes a la hora de rendir cuentas a su principal stakeholder: la ciudadanía. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opera houses are complex organizations owing to their mission of producing and displaying dramatic works of artistic excellence. Nowadays most of those are publicly-owned, representing a major instru-ment of cultural policies. According to the New Public Management theories, these organizations should be governed just like the rest of public agencies, not only in an economic sense but also in relation to their activity, in order to establish the expected results from their performance contracts. Nevertheless, these theories do not always square with the real practice. This article focuses on the degree of compli-ance of the Liceu's performance contracts as well as the determining factors that hinder progress in the goals of public value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we propose a strategy for implementing the Public Value Test in Spain taking into account the experience of other European countries. This is a mechanism put in place in recent years in order to evaluate the new offer of public broadcasting. Any public service should provide a public value that can and should be measured and evaluated. The Public Value Test must be applied before making a decision about any significant change: this can include introducing a new service or discontinuing an existing one. The Public Value Test in the UK comprises two elements - a Public Value Assessment and a Market Impact Assessment. License fee payers and industry are consulted during the process and before any final decision is made. The "Three-Step Test" (Drei-Stufen-Test) in Germany increases the importance of the organs of internal control over public broadcasting, however, there is a need to establish a body that includes external experts, especially for market issues. Another aspect to improve in the "Three-Step Test" should be the introduction of a mechanism that takes into account the views of the private sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addressing the question on What makes a public agency effective? This article identifies public agencies seen as effective by different indicators as well as types of people. Later, it identifies the variables explaining effectiveness in those cases, which would be: leadership and vision, reorientation of the mission, orientation to the beneficiary, intensive use of ITCs, and strategic management. Given that public agencies may improve and/or worsen, the identification of those public agencies effective and ineffective should be a regular exercise. That may contribute to establish process of continuous improvement in public management, the most important government tool to implement policies seeking to improve citizen's well being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frente a mercados imperfectos, se hace necesaria Ia presencia de organismos reguladores (OR) que corrijan estas fallas y ayuden a alcanzar un mejor bienestar para los individuos. En este artículo, se revisa brevemente la metodología para evaluar el impacto de estos OR sobre el mercado y los agentes involucrados. Se menciona Ia necesidad de considerar varios enfoques de análisis y de estrategias empíricas, haciendo un breve desarrollo del enfoque denominado administrativo-valorativo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]