P04 Public values: Beyond economics-based solutions in public policy problems

Corresponding chair

Jari Vuori, Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs, Center for Organization Research and Design Title: Professor, visiting scholar. Email: jvuori@asu.edu

Review group chair

Barry Bozeman, Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs, Center for Organization Research and Design Title: Regents' Professor Emeritus of Technology Policy and Public Management

Coordinator

Marika Kylänen, University of Vaasa, School of Management, Administrative Sciences, Finland Title: Doctoral Student. Email: marika.kylanen@gmail.com

The list of sub-topics:

• Past, Present and Future: who says what are the differences between Public, Private, Hybrid Organizations and when are those differences relevant?
• Do organizations and institutions have public values? Can they survive leader turnover?
• Can public values leaders survive (or thrive) in business organizations
• What are the requirements for effective implementations of public values?
• Erosion of environmental democracy: do we really need to do to achieve more to get less from our natural resources.
• The impact of cultural differences on public values in different public policy domains
• The hidden costs of economics based rational solutions in the policy problems of poverty and social exclusion.
• Differences in public values/public values – are we talking past one another?

The following abstracts are very welcome:

• Innovative methodological and methods driven theoretical and empirical papers of the issue
• Pioneering research gaps ideas of public values research in a frame public management, leadership and public policy implementation in particular.
• Multi/interdisciplinary approach to public values