Value creation and destruction involving multiple public service organizations: a focus on frontline employees

Abstract

Using six focus groups with frontline employees within the Swedish sick-leave service, this article explores the co-creation/destruction of value. The article both adheres to and questions the public service logic by utilizing an empirical case in which frontline staff represents not one, but multiple, public service organizations. Moreover, as value creation/destruction is not restricted to one beneficiary, and several beneficiaries can be tied to one single service, the research builds upon this notion and distinguishes between four levels of value creation/destruction.