Navigating tensions in co‐production: A missing link in leadership for public value
通过叙事分析，研究了在弱势原住民社区中发展公共价值共同生产能力的障碍，发现向上问责和专家知识导向是主要问题，并探讨了传统公共管理实践如何影响领导者的共同生产努力。
New forms of public leadership are needed to design and implement co‐production of public value. We draw on narrative analysis to explore the barriers to developing the capacity for co‐production of public value in disadvantaged and vulnerable Indigenous communities and find that existing norms not only crowd out efforts at reform, but can work against them. In particular, we find that upward accountability and a focus on expert knowledge are the most problematic for co‐production of public value. We focus on how more traditional practices of public administration mediated the achievements of public leaders in their co‐production efforts when Australian governments introduced strategies for partnership with Indigenous communities for services design and delivery. The analysis suggests that creating a broader enabling environment of supportive logics would allow public leaders to engage more productively with inherent tensions between old and new ways of working.