OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Management Review is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems	261
Implementing collaborative governance: models, experiences, and challenges	70
Design for experience – a public service design approach in the age of digitalization	55
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study	49
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats	44
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation	41
Social entrepreneurship in the context of disaster recovery: Organizing for public value creation	40
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements	39
Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19	39
Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems	38
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance?	36
South Korea’s fast response to coronavirus disease: implications on public policy and public management theory	33
Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?	33
Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China	29
Self-determination theory goes public: experimental evidence on the causal relationship between psychological needs and job satisfaction	29
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce	29
Policy narratives and megaprojects: the case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway	29
A validated measurement for felt relational accountability in the public sector: gauging the account holder’s legitimacy and expertise	28
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-19	26
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India	25
How does organizational sustainability foster public service motivation and job satisfaction? The mediating role of organizational support and societal impact potential	25
Facilitating collaboration in publicly mandated governance networks	24
Combined effects of procurement and collaboration on innovation in public-private-partnerships: a qualitative comparative analysis of 24 infrastructure projects	24

Neighbourhood governance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hangzhou: coproduction based on digital technologies	22
Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda	22
Lack of reform in Israeli local government and its impact on modern developments in public management	22
Intra-organizational trust in public organizations – the study of interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective	21
Continuous co-creation: how ongoing involvement impacts outcomes of co-creation	21
Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?	21
Is the turtle still plodding along? Public management reform in Germany	21
Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership	21
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state	21
Local government as a catalyst for promoting social enterprise	20
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review	19
E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure	19
Cross-sector collaboration formality: the effects of institutions and organizational leaders	19
Giving sense about paradoxes: paradoxical leadership in the public sector	19
Performance information and learning effects on citizen satisfaction with public services	18
Leadership and innovation: what’s the story? The relationship between leadership support level and innovation target	18
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness	17
Design in the public sector: Toward a human centred model of public governance	17
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?	17
How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats: transformational leadership, organizational learning, and professionalization strategies in the delivery of social assistance	17
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis	17
Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China	17
Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities	17
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?	16
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England	16
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany	16
Does digitizing involve desensitizing? Strategic insights into the side effects of workplace digitization	15
Barriers to entrepreneurship in public enterprises: boards contributing to inertia	15
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden	15
Strategizing on behalf of social enterprises: the case of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association and Catalyst	15
What drives network effectiveness? A configurational approach	15
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city	15
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective	15
Having it all: can collaborative governance be both legitimate and accountable?	14
Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies	14
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards	14
Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style	14
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services	14
Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise	13
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review	13
Beyond the tipping point: the curvilinear relationships of transformational leadership, leader–member exchange, and emotional exhaustion in the French police	13
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective	13
Crisis lifecycle, policy response, and policy effectiveness	12
The adoption of e-Health in public hospitals. Unfolding the gender dimension of TMT and line managers	12
Public health care innovation lab tackling the barriers of public sector innovation	12
Financial capacity and organizational stability in U.S. local governments	12
Contact with citizens and job satisfaction: expanding person-environment models of public service motivation	12
Mutuality in AI-enabled new public service solutions	12
Collaborative networks and environmental governance performance: a social influence model	12
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study	12

Budget transparency and governance quality: a cross-country analysis	12
Understanding financial resilience from a resource-based view: Evidence from US state governments	12
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework	12
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature	12
When the going gets tough, the goal-committed get going: overcoming the transaction costs of inter-agency collaborative governance	12
Business model innovation in the public sector: an integrative framework	12
Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration	11
Social entrepreneurs as change makers: expanding public service networks for social innovation	11
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability	11
Representation, reputation and expectations towards bureaucracy: experimental findings from a favela in Brazil	11
Determinants of open innovation adoption in public organizations: a systematic review	11
Boundary-spanning in public value co-creation through the lens of multilevel governance	11
Internal brand management in the public sector: the effects of internal communication, organizational practices, and PSM on employees’ brand perceptions	11
Public sector innovation in context: A comparative study of innovation types	11
The impact of technological innovation on service delivery: social media and smartphone integration in a 311 system	11
After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19	11
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation	11
Does non-profit commercialization help reduce social inequality? Revisiting the cross-subsidization hypothesis	11
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: a survey experiment in China	11
AI as an organizational agent to nurture: effectively introducing chatbots in public entities	11
Examining the impact of control and ownership on social enterprises’ public value creation using integrative publicness theory	10
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance	10
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context	10
Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China	10
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector	10
‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: a framework for examining double binds in public service organizations	10
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample	10
What contributes to the sustainability of self-organized non-profit collaboration in disaster relief？A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	10
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study	10
The perceived effectiveness of collaborative approaches to address domestic violence: the role of representation, ‘reverse-representation,’ embeddedness, and resources	10
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes	10
Understanding street‐level bureaucrats’ informal collaboration: Evidence from police officers across the jurisdictional divide	9
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments	9
Local government amalgamations: state of the art and new ways forward	9
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts	9
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations	9
Bought in? The contingent effect of stakeholder support upon strategic implementation success in American municipalities	9
Death anxiety among street-level bureaucrats: how does it affect their work drive and performance?	9
Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund	9
Perceived racial discrimination in the workplace: considering minority supervisory representation and inter-minority relations	9
Ethical leadership and program to reduce unethical behaviour among public employees	9
What makes work smart in the public sector? Insights from a bibliometric analysis and interpretive literature review	9
Publicness and micro-level risk behaviour: experimental evidence on stereotypical discounting behaviour	9
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement: a panel study in Pakistan	9
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness: A 30-year assessment and future agenda for public administration	9
Can effective organizational rules keep employees from leaving? a study of green tape and turnover intention	9
Strategic planning and performance perceptions of managers and citizens: analysing multiple mediations	9
Mobilizing to take responsibility: exploring the relationship between Sense of Community Responsibility (SOC-R), Public Service Motivation (PSM) and public service resilience during Covid-19	9
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship	9
Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs	9
Partisan bias and citizen satisfaction, confidence, and trust in the U.S. Federal Government	9