Value dynamics: Towards a framework for analyzing public value changes
By: Jorgensen, Torben Beck.
Contributor(s): Vrangback, Karsten.
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ArticlePublisher: 2011Description: p.486-496.Subject(s): Public Values
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International Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: The paper presents a preliminary framework for analyzing how values in the public sector change over time. The specific dynamics are conceptualised as threee types of change mechanisms: a teleological, a value-internal change mechanism. Choice of governance systems - hierachy, clan, network or market - is an example of designing control systems to promote particular values. Another change mechanism is rooted in coflicts between values and the actors carrying these values leading to various organisational responses. Finally, influenced by basic properties of a value changes may follow several distinct patterns such as life cycles, pendulum dynamics, processes are basically changes in value configurations: crowding out, sendimentation, the core-periphery hypothesis, division of labour, and re-interpretation. The paper uses examples from a Danish context, but argues that the value dynamics identified have a more universal scope. - Reproduced.
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 34, Issue no: 8-11 | Available | AR94660 |
The paper presents a preliminary framework for analyzing how values in the public sector change over time. The specific dynamics are conceptualised as threee types of change mechanisms: a teleological, a value-internal change mechanism. Choice of governance systems - hierachy, clan, network or market - is an example of designing control systems to promote particular values. Another change mechanism is rooted in coflicts between values and the actors carrying these values leading to various organisational responses. Finally, influenced by basic properties of a value changes may follow several distinct patterns such as life cycles, pendulum dynamics, processes are basically changes in value configurations: crowding out, sendimentation, the core-periphery hypothesis, division of labour, and re-interpretation. The paper uses examples from a Danish context, but argues that the value dynamics identified have a more universal scope. - Reproduced.
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