Journal of Public Value and Administration Insights (JPVAI) 1(1); 1-6 Copyright © 2018 Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1 Journal of Public Value and Administration Insights (JPVAI) ISSN:2313-3376 www.readersinsight.net/jpvai Systematic Review of Public Value Abdul Sami 1* , Ahmad Jusoh 2 , Khalil Md Nor 3 , Asmara Irfan 4 , Muhammad Imran Qureshi 5 1,2,3,4 Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 5 Malaysian Institute of Industrial Technology, University KualaLumpur * Corresponding author: abdulsami82@gmail.com Abstract (Using JPAVI Abstract Style) Public value is a new and important concept in the field of public administration. Large number of researchers has focused on the concept of public value during the last 10 years or so. This concept gives a new idea of public management with theme of people’s first approach to facilitate them. Public value creation is the main concern of public mangers in today’s public sector organizations. This paper presents systematic literature review of 413 articles published on the topic of public value in Scopus index journals from 1995 to 2018. The large number of articles on public value shows the importance of the concept of public value. This systematic literature review reveals that most of the work on public value has been done in developed countries like USA, UK, Australia and Netherland and developing countries are far behind on the research of public value. ARTICLE INFORMATION Received: 1 July 2018 Revised: 1 November 2018 Accepted: 13 November 2018 DOI: 10.31580/jpavi.v1i1.136 Keywords: Public Value; Systematic Review, Public Administration © Readers Insight Publication INTRODUCTION Recently, considerable number of researchers have been focusing on the study of Public Value (Bozeman, 2007; de Graaf and van der Wal, 2010; Meynhardt, 2009; Andersen et al., 2012; Fisher and Grant, 2013; Hartely, 2015). Public value has become an important construct in the present research on public administration (Esposito and Ricci, 2015) and the concept of public value has been attracting growing interest among public policy makers and managers in all over the world during past ten years or so. The foundation of public value is based on Harvard’s Professor Mark Moore’s seminal book Creating Public Value (Moore, 1995) in which he stated that fundamental function of public manager is to create public value by satisfying individual and collecting desires of public. The concept was further developed by the Work Foundation (Blaug et al., 2006) at Warwick University (Benington and Moore, 2011) in UK context (Kelly et al., 2002) and for developing countries (Karunasena and Deng, 2012). Academic community has also started discussion on the concept of public value (Stoker, 2006; Bozeman, 2007; Benington, 2009; Fisher and Grant, 2013; Dahl and Soss, 2014; Esposito and Ricci, 2015). Some governments and academician adopted the concept of public value and do efforts to develop an alternative model of governance in response to the traditional bureaucracy and new public management. Public value management is based on the democratic processes to explain the true spirit of public action and combat against the failures of the public sector. The followers of public value not only focus on efficiency and to achieve goal but also emphasize to fulfill the expectations of society. The goal of public value model is to make up for the failure of new public management to take into account citizens’ preferences (Colon and Guerin-Schneider, 2015). The concept of public value is significant for public sector administrators because it is an important topic in public administration and policy (Jørgensen and Bozeman, 2007, p. 355). Public value is a philosophy of public management in which public managers should think and act strategically to create public value and success is drawn from initiating and reshaping public sector enterprises in ways that increase their value to the public (Staples, 2010). The basic principle of public value is to guide the operations of public organization to achieve its fundamental goal of creating value for citizens through delivery of quality public services (Moore, 1995; Try and Radnor, 2007; Meynhardt, 2009). It is the target of all public and private sectors of the economy to show their contribution in creating and enhancing the value for their stake holders. Under the private sector, their goal is quite obvious that they have to generate profit in order to create private value. The goal of public sector organizations is to create public value just like the goal of private sector is to create private value. Contribution of public sector organization for the well-being of society and nation in the field of economic, social and environmental sector is considered as public value (Try and Radnor, 2007). Public value has the capacity to examine the performance of public services from the citizen’s point of view and due to this quality of public value, this concept is becoming very popular in the developed and even in developing countries to evaluate the performance of public services (Kelly et al., 2002; Benington, 2009; Alford and O’Flynn, 2009). Public value is used to measures the total impact of government activities to create values for its citizens (Kelly et al., 2002; Alford and O’Flynn, 2009). This concept is very helpful for governments to develop good relationship with citizens to improve policy decisions (Kelly et al., 2002). The future of public administration is based on the public value So this study do a systematic review of public value to draw a clear picture about public value in the eyes of researchers and practitioners. REVIEW METHODOLOGY This study reviews the literature on public value from Scopus indexed journals. The key word public value was searched in from the title of Scopus indexed journals and found that there were 471 articles were published on the topic of public value in Scopus indexed journals from 1995 to 2018.