Contracting for Public Value

About the Author

Carolyn Heinrich is a University Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations and Political Science and the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at Vanderbilt University. She holds secondary appointments in Economics and in Health Policy in the School of Medicine. Her research focuses on education, workforce development, health and social welfare policy, and public management. Deanna Malatesta is an associate professor at Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Her research focuses on public-private partnerships, inter-organizational collaboration, and contract governance. She earned her MPA from Rutgers University-Camden and her doctorate from the University of Georgia. She is a coauthor of the widely acclaimed public management textbook Understanding and Managing Public Organizations. Eleanor Carter is a UKRI Future Leaders Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government and the academic co-director of the Government Outcomes Lab. Her research explores the potential of novel contracting arrangements, such as social outcomes contracts and impact bonds, to facilitate purposeful partnerships and effective services. Michael Gibson is a DPhil student in public policy and research and a policy associate with the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. His research explores how trust between partners can be built and reconciled with the need for public accountability, and the role that different public values might play in influencing this. Nigel Ball is the director of Social Purpose Lab at University of the Arts London. He has extensive experience in the field of social change spanning government, social enterprise, and academia. He has built a career taking new projects and ideas and making them real, spanning a long succession of leadership roles. He was instrumental in the development of Oxford University's Government Outcomes Lab, and its annual Social Outcomes Conference.