Author

John Alford

Observed names: Alford, John, JOHN ALFORD

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Observed institutions: Australian National University, Harvard University, The University of Melbourne, St Petersburg University, Australia and New Zealand School of Government

ORCID: 0009-0006-0195-4414

Observed ORCID: 0009-0006-0195-4414

OpenAlex ID: A5026984273

Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management

2013 · Brian W. Head, John Alford · Administration & Society · 1,771

Engaging Public Sector Clients

2009 · John Alford · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 717

Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings

2009 · John Alford, Janine O'Flynn · International Journal of Public Administration · 636

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Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework

2017 · John Alford, Brian W Head · Policy and Society · 608

Public Value Pragmatism as the Next Phase of Public Management

2008 · John Alford, Owen Hughes · The American Review of Public Administration · 513

The Multiple Facets of Co-Production: Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom

2013 · John Alford · Public Management Review · 437

Defining the Client in the Public Sector: A Social‐Exchange Perspective

2002 · John Alford · Public Administration Review · 398

Why Do Public-Sector Clients Coproduce? Toward a Contingency Theory

2002 · John Alford · Administration & Society · 350

Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory

2016 · Jean Hartley, John Alford, et al. · Public Management Review · 336

Rethinking Public Service Delivery

2012 · John Alford, Janine O’Flynn · 310

Co-Production, Interdependence and Publicness: Extending public service-dominant logic

2015 · John Alford · Public Management Review · 293

A Public Management Road Less Travelled: Clients as Co‐producers of Public Services

1998 · John Alford · Australian Journal of Public Administration · 210

Public Value and Political Astuteness in the Work of Public Managers: the Art of the Possible

2014 · JEAN HARTLEY, JOHN ALFORD, et al. · Public Administration · 168

Co‐Production of Public Services in Australia: The Roles of Government Organisations and Co‐Producers

2015 · John Alford, Sophie Yates · Australian Journal of Public Administration · 138

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Public Value and Public Administration

2015 · Bloomberg, Laura, Crosby, Barbara C., et al. · Georgetown University Press eBooks · 134

Into the Purple Zone: Deconstructing the Politics/Administration Distinction

2016 · John Alford, Jean Hartley, et al. · The American Review of Public Administration · 126

Strategy in the Public and Private Sectors: Similarities, Differences and Changes

2017 · John Alford, Carsten Greve · Administrative Sciences · 112

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The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government

1994 · Deirdre O’Neill, John Alford · 108

The Limits to Traditional Public Administration, or Rescuing Public Value from Misrepresentation

2008 · John Alford · Australian Journal of Public Administration · 101

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Ventures in public value management: introduction to the symposium

2016 · John Alford, Scott Douglas, et al. · Public Management Review · 94

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Mapping public value processes

2014 · John Alford, Sophie Yates · International Journal of Public Sector Management · 94

Public Value from Co-production by Clients

2011 · John Alford · 77

The Separation/specification Dilemma in Contracting: the Local Government Experience in Victoria

2008 · JANINE O’FLYNN, JOHN ALFORD · Public Administration · 56

Towards a New Pubuc Management Model: Beyond “managerialism” and Its Critics

1993 · John Alford · Australian Journal of Public Administration · 52

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Public Value: A Stocktake of a Concept

2008 · John Alford, Janine L. O'Flynn · SSRN Electronic Journal · 46

Works count: 88

Citation count: 8,324

H-index: 28

I10-index: 37