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  • Public Value and Public Administration

    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, ... Read more

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  • Public Value

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    Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure on the contribution to business and social good of activities for which strict financial measures are ... Read more

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