Strategizing public value

Kitchener, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-557X and Ashworth, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7274-2164 2025. Strategizing public value. Public Management Review 10.1080/14719037.2025.2538067 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

To extend conceptual and empirical understanding of the strategizing required for public service organizations (PSOs) to create public value (PV), this paper applies a practice framework to analyse the practitioners, praxis, and practices of PV strategizing in two PSOs. Our findings present PV strategizing as a creative and innovative craft that is oblique in the sense that it rests on reflexive wayfinding, more than prescriptive waysetting. Our analysis explains how that craft can accommodate purposive and purposeful action, while providing an intendedly indirect way of prompting the learning that is required to deal with the complexity of PV strategizing.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1471-9037
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 July 2025
Date of Acceptance:	17 July 2025
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2025 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179939

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