Does Public Value Commitment Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility Fuel Accountant's Productivity During Covid-19 Pandemic and New Normal: A Case Study on Public Sector in Vietnam

This study aims to produce an in-depth examination of how public value commitment leadership increases accountant productivity. Additionally, it explores and sheds lights on the mediating function of corporate social responsibility. The sequential explanatory design was employed in this research where quantitative phase were proceeded at first followed by qualitative phase. The findings of the current research will help practitioners recognize and seize opportunities to improve accountant productivity. Besides, the benefits of a more in-depth comprehension in this research can help legislators enact legislation and regulations about corporate social responsibility to enhance the management of human resource in public sector. © 2023, The Author(s).

Public Value and Ethical Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major public governance issue in the United States since 2020. Public officials at all levels of government have provided important policies to control the spread of the pandemic and reduce its impact to society. This paper examines public value and ethical challenges that are related to the government’s pandemic responses. The paper first provides a review of value and ethical studies in public administration and public health crisis. It then examines value concerns and ethical challenges in COVID management and policy cases and the influence of political polarization to the value challenges. The paper concludes with discussions about the pandemic’s comprehensive challenges to the traditional professional management and suggestions of public value studies and trainings. [ FROM AUTHOR]

Doing better with less: do behavioural capabilities affect street level bureaucrats’ ability to deliver public value?

Street Level Bureaucrat (SLB) and Conservation of Resources theories are used to develop measures for Public Value (PV) and a higher-order construct comprising psychological capacities and behavioural capabilities - HERO-INE, and to test whether it is an antecedent of Public Service Motivation (PSM) and Public Value (PV) using data from 259 SLBs working in Australian healthcare collected at two points in time and analysed using Structural Equation Modelling. HERO-INE, PSM, and in-role behaviour explained approximately 40% of the SLBs' PV. The implication is that organizations must ensure that SLBs have the psychological and behavioural capabilities to deliver PV.

Cultural Heritage Digitalisation Policy as a Co-creation of Public Value. Evaluation of the Participatory Digital Public Service of Uffizi Galleries in Italy During the COVID-19

The paper evaluates the public value created through the cultural heritage digitalisation policy adopted by the Uffizi Galleries by opening a Facebook page during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using quality-quantity techniques based on text mining, Uffizi’s policy outcomes will be assessed by identifying citizens’ digital behaviors and underlying generative causes. Evidence shows that citizens-users do not act as mere passive beneficiaries but as implementers of the digital public service through continuous interactions allowed by social networks. Consequently, they contribute to the co-production of shared value and a transformation of the relationship between the museum and its citizens-users in managing cultural heritage. Finally, the paper defines generative causes for citizen users’ digital behavior. Thus, it allows a theory for the possible future successful transfer of cultural heritage digitalisation programs. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Mind the queue: understanding challenges of introducing e-government policies for entrepreneurs during Covid-19 in a Latin American country

Purpose This study aims to focus on understanding the tensions experienced by government officials in introducing electronic government (e-government) policies to support entrepreneurs in a developing Latin American country. Design/methodology/approach This study relies on an in-depth qualitative approach based on collaborative and analytic auto-ethnography. The authors concentrate on tensions experienced by a government official and how they were addressed when introducing e-government policies to support entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Findings The findings reveal that paradoxical tensions occur as changes are demanded, multiple concerns are expressed and decisions about resources have to be made. The findings reveal sources of tensions from government, business and external sources. Addressing such tensions revolves around a diverse form of paradoxes dealing with contradictions in terms of speed vs thoroughness and short- vs long-term implications. Research limitations/implications The authors' study provides several contributions. It advances understanding on the source and management of tensions experienced by government officials introducing e-government policies to support entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also delineates multiple paradoxes experienced by government officials as new policies and systems were introduced. Finally, it offers a conceptual model explaining how government officials deal with multiple tensions emerging from the introduction of e-government policies in a developing country. Originality/value The prior literature has suggested that e-government initiatives would be guided by a prescriptive and tension-free process, driven by the interest to enhance governmental efficiency. This study reveals that developing e-government initiatives for entrepreneurs and existing businesses during the Covid-19 crisis was not immune to contradictions between government officials and the public. A conceptual model, based on multiple sources of tensions (government-related, business-related and external sources) and their management, is proposed. Implications and opportunities for further research are presented.

How to Promote Public Engagement and Enhance Sentiment Through Government Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Public Value Management Perspective

In the period of public health crisis, effective and efficient transmission of crisis information to the public through social media is an important support for achieving social stability and orderly online public engagement. From the perspective of public value management, this study systematically investigated how local government agencies in China used social media to promote public engagement and raise public sentiment during the COVID-19 crisis. Using data captured from the “Wuhan Release” Sina Weibo account, the authors studied the factors that influence public engagement, including information sources, language styles, and media types. Further, it explores the influence of the interactive effects of public value with information sources, language styles, and media types on public engagement and public sentiment. The results show that the consistency of government response content and public value promotes public engagement and raises public sentiment. This research provides enlightenment and ideas for cognition, understanding and governance of public opinion in practice.

Fact‐value framework for adjudicating public health policy debates

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. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] Resumen Que la política debe basarse en la evidencia se ha convertido en un dictamen ampliamente aceptado, especialmente en la salud pública, donde se enfatiza fuertemente la política basada en la evidencia (EBP). Sin embargo, la mayoría de las controversias sobre salud pública surgen porque existe un conflicto de valores que los hechos por sí solos no pueden resolver. Además, promover intervenciones de salud basadas en la población requiere el arte de los actores políticos para despertar el apoyo público. Al discutir esta tensión en la salud pública, los estudios a menudo enmarcan los conflictos de valores como una barrera para la toma de decisiones racional en lugar de considerar las consideraciones de valor como una parte inherente de la formulación de políticas democráticas. Argumentamos que al no abordar directamente los conflictos de valores, los profesionales de la salud pública en realidad obstaculizan la traducción de la evidencia, lo que requiere la aceptación pública y política. Sugerimos un marco de dos por dos que busca hacer que las preocupaciones de valor sean más explícitas en la formulación de políticas de salud pública al dividir las controversias y alternativas de políticas en dos dimensiones: debates fácticos y debates de valores, creando cuatro categorías: alternativas indiscutibles, debates de valores, debates de hechos. y alternativas cuestionadas. Demostramos que las políticas que tienen más probabilidades de ser cuestionadas son aquellas con un fuerte conflicto de valores y donde la base de evidencia es menos sólida. También mostramos que el marco es dinámico: los conflictos de hechos y valores no son estáticos ni inevitables. Más bien, los actores interesados usan tanto el hecho como el valor para tratar de llevar los asuntos de disputados a no disputados y viceversa. Concluimos demostrando cómo el marco puede ayudar a especificar el papel de los debates sobre valores y hechos en la formulación de políticas de salud pública a través de ejemplos de controversias sobre políticas de salud pública de EE. UU., incluso durante la actual crisis de COVID‐19. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] 摘要 政策应询证(evidence‐based)已成为广泛接受的名言，尤其是在极其强调循证政策(EBP)的公共卫生领域。不过，大多数公共卫生争议的出现是因为存在价值观冲突，而这种冲突仅靠事实是无法解决的。此外，促进以人口为基础的卫生干预需要政治行动者具备激发公众支持的能力。 在探讨公共卫生中的这种紧张关系时，研究通常将价值冲突视为理性决策的障碍，而不是将价值考量视为民主决策的固有部分。我们论证认为，由于未能直接参与价值冲突，公共卫生专业人员实际上阻碍了证据的转化，这种转化需要公众和政治的认可。 我们提出一个二乘二的框架，该框架通过在两个维度(事实辩论和价值辩论)上划分政策争议和替代方案，使价值问题在公共卫生决策中更加明确，并因此产生四个类别:无争议的替代方案、价值辩论、事实辩论、有争议的替代方案。我们证明，最有可能受到质疑的政策是那些具有强烈价值冲突且证据基础不那么可靠的政策。我们还表明该框架是动态的:事实和价值冲突既非静态、也非不可避免。相反，有利害关系的行动者使用事实和价值来尝试将问题从有争议转向无争议，反之亦然。我们的结论通过美国公共卫生政策争议(包括当前COVID‐19危机期间)实例，展示了该框架如何帮助明确价值和事实辩论在公共卫生决策中的作用。 (Chinese) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Review of Policy Research is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Public Value Management: A Paradigm Shift?

This chapter reflects on the previous chapters and provides an assessment of what the evidence from the British context tells us about the debate regarding whether we are living in a time of post-new public management, whether public value management fills a conceptual vacuum, or whether this represents the ‘emperors new clothes’. It concludes that there has not been a paradigmatic shift away from new public management ideas but that there has been an incremental shift in terms of how public value outcomes are being considered by policy-makers. What has been missing is a comprehensive reform agenda that allows public value management to be a consistent and integral part of British governance. However, the twin crises of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic may offer a springboard for reform in the medium to long term. © 2021, The Author(s).

From E-budgeting to smart budgeting: Exploring the potential of artificial intelligence in government decision-making for resource allocation

Artificial intelligence has become an important tool for governments around the world. However, it is not clear to what extent artificial intelligence can improve decision-making, and some policy domains have not been the focus of most recent studies, including the public budget process. More specifically, budget allocation is one of the areas in which AI may have greatest potential. Therefore, this study attempts to contribute to this gap in our existing knowledge by answering the following research question: To what extent can artificial intelligence techniques help distribute public spending to increase GDP, decrease inflation and reduce the Gini index? In order to respond to this question, this article proposes an algorithmic approach on how budget inputs (specific expenditures) are processed to generate certain outputs (economic, political, and social outcomes). The authors use the multilayer perceptron and a multiobjective genetic algorithm to analyze World Bank Open Data from 1960 to 2019, including 217 countries. The advantages of implementing this type of decision support system in public expenditures allocation arise from the ability to process large amounts of data and to find patterns that are not easy to detect, which include multiple non-linear relationships. Some technical aspects of the expenditure allocation process could be improved with the help of these kinds of techniques. In addition, the results of the AIbased approach are consistent with the findings of the scientific literature on public budgets, using traditional statistical techniques.

Space for Earth and Climate Change – Public Value in a Risk Society

Today our society is confronted with the consequences of a triple crisis, a health crisis, an economic crisis and a climate crisis. Years of progress to reduce poverty and social divide, global cooperation, and efforts to combat climate change are threatened by an abrupt change in our livelihoods. Indeed, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased tensions between states. However, if challenges emanating from these trends emphasise on the need to anticipate future risks and define measures to mitigate them, they also raise new opportunities, especially for the space sector to show its contributions to the greater good of the society. As part of a research project in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire, the European Space Agency, undertook an analysis aimed at measuring the wider than economic value created by ESA programmes and activities as perceived by the European citizens. The results revealed a positive contribution to the common good. This paper will now present an innovative approach to public value management, to take stock of the results found and use it in its wider policy and resource settings to maximise its contribution to the society, and mission and mandates. At a time of existential crisis in which the anticipation of climate catastrophe caused by mankind drives public perceptions, policy and politics, this public value approach to optimising the impact of Space for Earth, brings imagery and insights into the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. Using public value and the risk society framework to unlock the potential of satellite imagery and information, we show how the impact of ESA’s Space for Earth missions may be optimised. We do this by focusing upon the existential risks associated with climate change to the constellation of universal human value categories, which now bear upon everybody, everywhere. The practicality of this presentation will be to draw upon high-resolution images from inter alia Copernicus, to show the impact of humanity upon the natural environment. This paper will further give insights for action and communication essential to mobilise citizens in the co-production of solutions to mankind’s most pressing problems. Copyright © 2021 by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). All rights reserved.

Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic.

This study adopts a public value perspective to examine the eHealth services deployed by national and regional governments to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, including symptoms checkers, information portals and contact-tracing applications. We analyse 50 cases of eHealth applications adopted in 25 European Economic Area (EEA) and outline how these systems and technologies map against four dimensions of public value: user orientation, participation, legality and equity. Our findings reveal that the public value of the eHealth applications adopted in the context of the current pandemic is affected by both endogenous and exogenous factors that undermine their ability to improve the quality of healthcare services and social wellbeing. We conclude by suggesting areas for further research to address such factors and the trade-offs emerging between different dimensions of public value.

Public Risk-Taking and Rewards During the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Case Study of Remdesivir in the Context of Global Health Equity.

Public investment, through both research grants and university funding, plays a crucial role in the research and development (R&D) of novel health technologies, including diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines, to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Using the example of remdesivir, one of the most promising COVID-19 treatments, this paper traces back public contributions to different stages of the innovation process. Applying the Risk-Reward Nexus framework to the R&D of remdesivir, we analyse the role of the public in risk-taking and reward and address inequities in the biomedical innovation system. We discuss the collective, cumulative and uncertain characteristics of innovation, highlighting the lack of transparency in the biomedical R&D system, the need for public investment in the innovation process, and the "time-lag" between risk-taking and reward. Despite the significant public transnational contributions to the R&D of remdesivir, the rewards are extracted by few actors and the return to the public in the form of equitable access and affordable pricing is limited. Beyond the necessity to treat remdesivir as a global public good, we argue that biomedical innovation needs to be viewed in the broader concept of public value to prevent the same equity issues currently seen in the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires the state to take a market-shaping rather than market-fixing role, thereby steering innovation, ensuring that patents do not hinder global equitable access and affordable pricing and safeguarding a global medicines supply.