Public value, institutional logics and practice variation during austerity localism at Newcastle City Council

Ferry, L.; Ahrens, T.; Khalifa, R.

doi:10.1080/14719037.2018.1462398

Public value, institutional logics and practice variation during austerity localism at Newcastle City Council

Ferry, L.; Ahrens, T.; Khalifa, R.

Authors

Professor Laurence Ferry laurence.ferry@durham.ac.uk
Professor

T. Ahrens

R. Khalifa

Abstract

This article outlines how a local authority, Newcastle City Council (NCC), employed a public value strategy to address austerity localism. Borrowing from neo-institutional theory, it traces how organizational change constituted also a variation of democratic deliberation practices. Legitimation of budget decisions against central government cuts involved such practice variations as public consultations to change NCC’s vision and mobilize support, building operational capacity beyond the organization, and new accountings for measuring public value. Insofar as such organization changes constituted instances of institutional entrepreneurship of local government as a key democratic institution, our article refines existing theorizing of public value accounting.

Citation

Ferry, L., Ahrens, T., & Khalifa, R. (2019). Public value, institutional logics and practice variation during austerity localism at Newcastle City Council. Public Management Review, 21(1), 96-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2018.1462398

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Feb 20, 2018
Online Publication Date	May 1, 2018
Publication Date	2019
Deposit Date	Feb 20, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Nov 1, 2019
Journal	Public Management Review
Print ISSN	1471-9037
Electronic ISSN	1471-9045
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	21
Issue	1
Pages	96-115
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2018.1462398
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1339406

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Management Review on 01 May 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14719037.2018.1462398.