Technology-enabled value co-creation in healthcare: a configurational approach

Based on the well-recognized multidimensionality of public value and the increasing role of technology in public service co-production, this paper investigates how combinations of the caregivers’ antecedents stemming from the Health Co-Creation Evaluation Framework, can either support or hamper value-in-use co-creation by being empowered in carrying out telemedicine. This article employs a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 23 cases and shows different but functionally equivalent configurations of conditions that lead to the co-creation and co-destruction of public value. The findings also reveal practical insights that public managers and policy makers could use to foster the co-creation of public value.