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in the 1980s and 90s (Keaney 2006, 2-5). As Moore and Moore write, the public<br />

value framework is<br />

a concept that encourages one to speak with expressive, passionate enthusiasm<br />

about the public value that one sees within reach and feels duty-bound to<br />

pursue, [and also] directs managerial attention to what is possible to achieve in a<br />

particular political and organizational setting. (2005, 102)<br />

Thus, rather than a defined form of value or set of outcomes that need only be<br />

measured, public value is ‘a theory, model and practice [that] addresses management<br />

issues’ (Scott 2013, xiii). The public value approach has been critiqued for its<br />

definitional vagueness and for failing to specify who the ‘public’ is (O’Brien 2014,<br />

120-22; Scott 2010; Keaney 2006, 27)<br />

While the individual impacts received through cultural experiences that are<br />

explored in this literature review may certainly help organisations and agencies<br />

articulate their public value, we do not address the topic directly. In fact, the term<br />

is only occasionally mentioned in the literature we review here, most notably in<br />

the work of John Holden (2004, 2006) and Chappell and Knell (2012). Readers<br />

may find more comprehensive discussions of public value in the arts and cultural<br />

sector in Keaney (2006), Scott (2013) and O’Brien (2014, chapter 6). In addition,<br />

Holden and Baltà (2012) survey literature on the topic.<br />

The focus of this literature review is on the value and impacts that arts and culture<br />

create on the level of individual attendees and participants, and how cultural<br />

organisations can foster such exchanges. To commence our review, we explore<br />

conceptual frameworks that position these values and impacts within the larger<br />

picture of ‘cultural value’ and within the language of other impact models in the<br />

following section.<br />

Introduction 34<br />

UNDERSTANDING the value and impacts of cultural experiences

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