Public Service Logic and Public Service Reform

Stephen P Osborne is the Chair of International Public Management and Director of the Centre for Service Excellence at the University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland, UK.Carmine Bianchi is the Chair of Public Management & Governance in the Department of Political Sciences at University of Palermo, Italy.Joanne Macfarlane is a research fellow in Public Management at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

• 1. Introduction – public service logic: state of the art and evolution Public service logic (PSL) 2. Public service logic and determinants of value co-creation in healthcare 3. Demystifying resource integration in welfare service 4. Putting the ‘public’ in public service logic: towards a reconciliation of value creation and public sector values 5. Enhancing transition from a ‘value-in-exchange’ perspective to holistic and sustainable outcome-based view of community value creation: a dynamic performance management and governance learning-orientated approach 6. Identifying process interactions in public service logic framework using co-production theory 7. Value co-destruction dynamics in public service innovation ecosystems 8. When service users say “no”: exploring value failure from a PSE perspective 9. Advancing PSL theory: a PSL value proposition for disability service ecosystems that support people with intellectual disability, their families and careers 10. Integrating collaborative governance with public service logic 11. Ecosystems in public service logic literature 12. Public service logic (PSL) and its practices: towards a new era for public services management? 13. Taking public service logic into the digital environment: co-designing public services in a virtual setting 14. Service design for strategic orientation in PSL 15. An active and equal partner? Developing the understanding of the pubic service user as an actor in value co-creation 16. Dealing with unintended consequences of performance management in the public sector: solutions from adopting ‘public service logic’ 17. Accounting for value: approaching performance management and accounting for public service organisations from a Public Service Logic perspective 18. What homelessness in Finland reveals about PSL approaches to problem-solving 19. Public service logic in Brazil: the case of the DiaTrans ambulatory 20. Understanding public service ecosystems in urban communities: an examination based on China’s experience 21. Usefulness of public service logic in policy making process: from the perspective of integrated community care system and university management in Japan 22. Evolution of public service innovation networks in public service ecosystem – implications of PSL from south Asian liberal democracies Conclusions: future directions for Public Service Logic Theory and Practice