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Following the mob? How diversity as dogma can damage public services

Green, Stuart

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Authors

Stuart Green stuart.green@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in Accounting



Abstract

The OECD claims that diversity among public service leaders is a business imperative that leads to ‘improved governance outcomes’. At best, the empirical evidence for this assertion is mixed. At worst, it renders the OECD claim to be simply untrue. This article demonstrates how diversity as dogma, idée fixe and intellectual sophistry can damage public services. Job-related (rather than demographic) diversity can improve business performance but needs to be aligned with appropriate leadership structures, governance systems and accountability arrangements.

Citation

Green, S. (2024). Following the mob? How diversity as dogma can damage public services. Public Money & Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2311671

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 9, 2024
Online Publication Date Feb 9, 2024
Publication Date Feb 9, 2024
Deposit Date Mar 21, 2024
Publicly Available Date Mar 21, 2024
Journal Public Money & Management
Print ISSN 0954-0962
Electronic ISSN 1467-9302
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2311671
Keywords Public Administration; Sociology and Political Science; General Business, Management and Accounting; Finance; Accounting
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2335035

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in anyway. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.





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