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What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T., & Aulton, K. (2022, April). What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects. Paper presented at IRSPM 2022, Online

Public Service Logic (PSL) theory has undergone considerable development over the past years. Initially established as a challenge to the hegemony of New Public Management (NPM), PSL researchers proposed to explore public services as ‘services’ and i... Read More about What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects.

Unpacking Value Destruction: Exploring the dark side of public service delivery (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. (2021, April). Unpacking Value Destruction: Exploring the dark side of public service delivery. Paper presented at IRSPM 2021, Online

This paper is devoted to the empirical examination of value destruction as the ‘dark side’ of public service delivery. In particular, we emphasize that current scholarship on value creation/destruction is problematically distributed into two discrete... Read More about Unpacking Value Destruction: Exploring the dark side of public service delivery.

What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T. (2021, April). What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM), Online

Public value and private value have become two core concepts in the theoretical development of post-NPM era. Yet, paradoxically, both concepts are characterised by extremely vague definitions. This paper aims at addressing this crucial gap. Using dat... Read More about What Matters to Me! Diversified Value Perceptions in the Delivery of Public Projects.

Responding future public crisis: the joint and variegated sense-making for implementing local climate mitigation projects (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. (2019, June). Responding future public crisis: the joint and variegated sense-making for implementing local climate mitigation projects. Paper presented at Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), Chapel Hill, NC, US

Organisational sense-making, namely ‘the social process by which meaning is produced (Phillips et al. 2004, 641)’, consists the detection and interpretation of an emerging organisational change that cannot be understood by existing cognitive system.... Read More about Responding future public crisis: the joint and variegated sense-making for implementing local climate mitigation projects.

Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. (2019, April). Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM), Wellington, New Zealand

In today’s increasingly complex, fragmented and interdependent world, public managers are confronted by many major public issues which threaten the sustainable development of future human society. Addressing these ‘future public issues’ requires the... Read More about Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice.

Building Public Values through Cross-sector Collaboration: One Possibility of Creating Public Value (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. (2018, April). Building Public Values through Cross-sector Collaboration: One Possibility of Creating Public Value. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM), Edinburgh, UK

Compared with the increasing prevalence of public value literature, the importance of public values research is seriously underestimated. This essay attempts to shed lights on this topic. Using a case study, we want to explore in which ways the publi... Read More about Building Public Values through Cross-sector Collaboration: One Possibility of Creating Public Value.