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cord-035351-3mv6x0w9	Boin, Arjen	Guardians of Public Value: How Public Organizations Become and Remain Institutions	2020-11-13		.txt	text/plain	10659	607	46	An important recent study that provides support for much of what Selznick was proposing, albeit cast in slightly different language, is that of Charles Goodsell (2011a, b) , who examined the organizational history and development of 'mission-driven' public agencies in the United States, including such iconic institutions as NASA and the National Forest Service. Institutions are, in other words, better prepared to weather the storms of failure, scandal and crisis that any organization faces in its lifetime-provided, as Selnick (1957) reminds us, that they remain responsive and adaptive to the environments they work in and from which they derive their public licence to operate (in fact, Selznick identified this as the most difficult leadership task). If we suspend judgement, we can learn-even from institutions that in our time and context may look questionable-valuable lessons about their emergence, their value proposition, their governance, their 'formula' for success, their ways of acquiring a public licence to operate, their ways of navigating conflict and tensions, and in some instance, their decline and downfall.	./cache/cord-035351-3mv6x0w9.txt	./txt/cord-035351-3mv6x0w9.txt