Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning

Identifying the diverse and often competing values of citizens, and resolving the consequent public value conflicts, are of significant importance for inclusive and integrated urban development. Scholars have highlighted that relational, value-laden urban space gives rise to many diverse conflicts that vary both spatially and temporally....

Digital Infrastructures for Monitoring Circular Economy Investments by Financial Institutions and Government: A Research Agenda

Circular Economy (CE) and sustainability are getting high on the political agenda of governments on the global level. Businesses and supply chains are at the heart of that transition, and need to make big steps in the coming years for making the transition from a linear model of make-use-dispose towards a circular model. For this transition,...

Public Thresholds: Experimenting with Public Value Creation through Spatial Interventions in Public Buildings

In current times, which are dominated by uncertainty and change, the limits of public and private realms are in a continuous definition. As a condensation of the public sphere, public buildings have turned into thresholds, into active<br/>public sphere agents that can motivate behaviour and, as a result, produce public values. Public buildings...

The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of...

Towards Decentralised Energy Systems: An Analysis of the Distribution of Tasks to Safeguard Essential Energy Sector's Public Values

Governing crowd-based innovations: an interdisciplinary research agenda

The crowd increasingly plays a key role in facilitating innovations in a variety of sectors, spurred on by IT-developments and the concomitant increase in connectivity. Initiatives in this direction, captured under the umbrella-term ‘crowd-based innovations’ (CBI), offer novel opportunities in all domains of society by increasing the access,...

Towards an Open Government Data Success Model: A case study from Indonesia

Governments around the world are following the global open government movement by initiating Open Government Data (OGD) programs. They are motivated by the claim that it will generate economic and social value. However, the success of an OGD initiative will only be realized when OGD is used and when the use results in the creation of public...

How do network companies seek legitimacy for public value trade offs?: The case of injecting biogas

Network companies fulfill a critical role in the energy transition. The is article provides an empirical study of this role of a Dutch national gas network company connecting a biogas producer. This project requires choices about many intertwined technical and institutional variables. Choices involve multiple, potentially competing public values...

Governance for Public Values in European Railways

Governments expect public values to be secured through the efficient and effective delivery of rail services, but the effects of railway governance are in many ways unclear. This research aims at getting a better understanding of the influence of organisational aspects on the performance of European railways, keeping in mind the relevant public...

Contested Technologies and Design for Values: The Case of Shale Gas

The introduction of new energy technologies may lead to public resistance and contestation. It is often argued that this phenomenon is caused by an inadequate inclusion of relevant public values in the design of technology. In this paper we examine the applicability of the value sensitive design (VSD) approach. While VSD was primarily introduced...

The regulatory challenge of competing public values

This paper reports on the method and findings of a new type of public value research to assess the effects of regulatory oversight. A semi-ethnographic approach is to trace oversight objectives through companies providing public services. We traversed two Dutch railway companies and a Dutch electricity company with interviews and observations in...