A cura di: Alessandro Spano, Enrico Guarini

Public Value in Action

Co-Creation Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Governance

This book presents ten peer-reviewed chapters developed by early-career scholars who have been confronted with an important issue: how public institutions, non-profit organizations, private actors, and international organizations create public value through collaboration. It examines cocreation dynamics across various sectors, including social services, local utilities, healthcare, higher education, and inner-area development.

Pagine: 288

ISBN: 9788835188551

Edizione:1^a ediz 2026

Codice editore: 10388.17

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DOI: 10.3280/oa-1500

The book Public Value in Action. Co-Creation Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Governance presents ten peer-reviewed chapters developed by early-career scholars who have been confronted with an important issue: how public institutions, non-profit organizations, private actors, and international organizations create—or at times destroy—public value through collaboration. By combining theoretical reflections with systematic literature reviews, case studies, and network analyses, it examines cocreation dynamics across various sectors, including social services, local utilities, healthcare, higher education, and inner-area development.
The chapters address a variety of themes such as NGOs’ stakeholder networks; public value in local utilities; ESG integration into public-sector risk management; sustainability in healthcare; the relationship between NPM-inspired performance auditing and public value; public value in international institutions; value co-creation in public-nonprofit partnerships; public-value-oriented performance management in universities; reverse innovation; and dynamic performance governance for marginalised territories.
Overall, the volume highlights the central role of collaborative governance, stakeholder involvement, and service co-design in addressing complex societal problems; however, it also identifies risks of fragmentation, value destruction, and limited stakeholder integration. Drawing on the fresh perspectives and rigorous analyses of Young scholars, the book aims to provide analytical tools and conceptual insights for scholars and practitioners interested in sustainable and inclusive ways to create public value.

Alessandro Spano, PhD, is a full professor of Business Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Cagliari, where he teaches Business Economics, Public Management and Business Analytics. His research interests include new digital technologies for service delivery, management control systems, business information systems, business analytics, process mining, performance measurement and evaluation, process analysis, and healthcare management.

Enrico Guarini, PhD, is an associate professor of business administration and management at the Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. His research interests include public budgeting and financial management, public management and governance. He serves as Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Local Governance at the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM).

Introduction

Caterina Cavicchi, NGOs’ strategies for public value co-creation: A stakeholder network analysis

Introduction
Public value co-creation and the role of NGOs
Social network analysis in NGOs
Methodology and research questions
Results
Discussion
Concluding remarks

Maria Testa, Giulia Leoni, Public value in local utilities. A structured literature review

Introduction
Perspectives from prior literature reviews on public value: a contextualization in local utilities
Methodology
Results
Discussion and conclusion

Sarah Russo, Assessing public sector alignment with ESG integration in ERM: Implications for decision-making and public value

Introduction
Theoretical background
Research design
Findings: A documental analysis
The proposition of a guide specifically for PSOs
Future directions and conclusion

Paola Canestrini, Exploring public value and sustainability in healthcare

Introduction
Background
Method
Findings
Conclusions
Acknowledgments

Simona Caramia, NPM reforms and performance auditing: Divergence or alignment in the pursuit of public value? A systematic literature review

Introduction
Public value and co-creation
Methodology
Results
Discussion and conclusion

Gabriella Pica, Public value creation and international institutions: A systematic literature review

Introduction
Background concepts
Methodology
Findings
Discussion and research agenda
Conclusions

Beatrice Meo, Navigating value co-creation dynamics: A literature review of public-nonprofit partnerships

Introduction
Method
Developing codes for analysis
Findings
The future of social value co-creation
Conclusion

Giovanni Barbato, Martina Pisarra, Public value integration into performance management systems: Insights from universities

Introduction
Literature background: features of PV-informed PMSs in public sector organizations
Empirical context: the introduction of a PV-informed PMS in the Italian PA
Research design
Empirical results: an analysis of the PIAOs of Italian mega universities
Discussion
Concluding remarks

Marco Mastrodascio, A bibliometric analysis of the reverse innovation concept

Introduction
Theoretical background
Research methodology
Results
Discussion and conclusions
References

Noemi Grippi, Francesco Gennusa, Enhancing value creation in inner areas through dynamic performance governance

Introduction
Dealing with inner areas dynamic complexity through collaboration
Dynamic performance governance
Applying the DPG approach to inner areas' performance governance
Concluding remarks

Editors

Authors

Contributi: Giovanni Barbato, Paola Canestrini, Simona Caramia, Caterina Cavicchi, Francesco Gennusa, Noemi Grippi, Giulia Leoni, Marco Mastrodascio, Beatrice Meo, Gabriella Pica, Martina Pisarra, Sarah Russo, Maria Testa

Collana: Collana di Ragioneria ed Economia Aziendale - Open Access

Argomenti: Economia, economia aziendale

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