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What does it mean to create public value in a multi-sector, shared-power, no-one-wholly-in charge world?

We live in a world where most major public challenges we face require contributions from governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations, communities and/or other sectors if the challenges are to be met successfully.

How do we get the good that these sectors have to offer, while minimizing or overcoming their characteristic weaknesses in such a way that public value is created and the common good is advanced?

The Center for Integrative Leadership is embarking on a year-long exploration of these questions. The process will include research symposia, practitioner dialogues, and review of several commissioned foundation papers. Our year-long exploration will culminate in a public conference for scholars and practitioners in Minneapolis on September 20-22, 2012.

The goals of the conference include:

• Deepened understanding of the foundation building blocks and societal sectors on which the creation of public value depends, along with their characteristic strengths and weaknesses in comparative perspective
  
• A multidisciplinary conceptual framework to better understand the cross-boundary achievement of public value
  
• Analytic tools for assessing key elements of achieving public value and integrative leadership
• Case studies illustrating integrative leadership models that create what the public values
• Dissemination of new insights via:
                 • Special journal issue of Public Administration Review
                 • Edited book manuscript
                 • Web-based dissemination for practitioners (e.g., webinars, blogs posts, instructional materials)     

 

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