OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Administration & Society is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How Do Leaders Influence Innovation and Creativity in Employees? The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation	55
How-to Bureaucracy: A Concept of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy	54
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education	42
Taking a COVID-19 Vaccine or Not? Do Trust in Government and Trust in Experts Help Us to Understand Vaccination Intention?	24
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	24
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises: Evidence From China’s Fighting Against COVID-19	22
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure	21
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	21
Social Accountability Between Consensus and Confrontation: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Societal Accountability Relationships of Public Sector Organizations	20
Are State-Owned Enterprises Good Citizens in Environmental Governance? Evidence From the Control of Air Pollution in China	20
Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View	18
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	17
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	16
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	16
Public Value Is Unknowable; Public Authority Makes Every Government Decision a Wicked Problem	15
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	15
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	15
The Role of Collaboration in Complying With COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study	14
Local Autonomy in Temporary Organizations: The Case of Smart City Pilots	14
Coordination Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Institutional Collective Action Framework	14
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation: Experimental Evidence From Korean Citizens	13
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	13
Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience	13
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	13
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability	12

To Market or Demarket? Public-Sector Branding of Cannabis in Canada	11
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	11
Public Value is Knowable, Public Value Creation is Not	11
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective	11
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	10
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	10
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	10
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services?	10
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	10
Institutional Injustice: How Public Administration Has Fostered and Can Ameliorate Racial Disparities	10
Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance	10
Walking on Thin Ice: How and Why Frontline Officers Cope With Managerialism, Accountability, and Risk in Probation Services	9
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	9
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	9
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	9
Understanding Emergency Preparedness in Public Agencies: The Key Role of Managerial Perceptions	9
Actions for Queering American Public Administration	9
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	9
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	9
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	9
Interactive Learning and Governance Transformation for Securing Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries	9
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment	9
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	9
The Nodality Disconnect of Data-Driven Government	8
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	8
Managerialism and Its Consequences for Professional Identity: A Comparative Analysis of GPs and Secondary School Teachers	7
Conditional Nature of Policy as a Stabilizing Force: Erin’s Law and Teacher Child Abuse Reporting Practices	7
The Relationship Between Islamic Work Ethic and Public Service Motivation	7
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?	7
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	7
Designing Performance Systems in Anticipation of Unintended Consequences: Experiences and Lessons From the Compstat-Based Performance Regime in NYPD	7
The Sequence of Isomorphism—: The Temporal Diffusion Patterns of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions and Hospitals	7
Local Governance Platforms: Roles and Relations of City Governments, Citizens, and Businesses	6
COVID-19 Risk Perception and Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures among Local Government Officials in the U.S.: A Test of a Cultural Theory of Risk	6
Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices	6
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities: Street-Level Bureaucracy at the Crossroads of Ethno-National Conflict	6
Project and Process Management of Public-Private Partnerships: Managerial Tensions and Coping Strategies	6
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	6
Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing	6
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	5
Reactivity and the Dialectics of Performance Measurement: Micropolitics Between Agency and Compliance	5
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	5
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	5
Street-Level Actors, Migrants, and Gender: Dealing With Divergent Perspectives	5
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	5
Some Optimism About Public Governance	5
Commentaries on “Public Value is Unknowable”: Valuing the Dimensions of Public Choices	5
Co-creation: A New Pathway for Solving Dysfunctionalities in Governance Systems?	5
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	5
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	4

Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	4
Assessing Organizational Role and Perceptions of Programmatic Success in Policy Implementation	4
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism	4
Relationality as a Lens for Policy Analysis: Preserving Harmony in a Triangular Cooperation Project to Strengthen Gender Mainstreaming in Fiji	4
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency	4
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	4
Can Anyone Implement the Law? The Discourse and Practice of Externalizing Legal Authority	4
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	4
The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review	4
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	4
Confidence in Merit-Based Public Administration in the Context of Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism	4
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	4
Beyond Weber and Kafka: Conceptualizing a Critical Realist Model of Bureaucracy	4
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities	4
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	4
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	4
The Relationship Between Local Public Policies for Economic Development and Entrepreneurial Presence: The Italian Case	4
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	3
Response to commentaries: Public Authority: Paradox, Process, and Palindrome	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity	3
Transparency Versus Populism	3
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	3
Super-Human or Sub-Human? Positive Dehumanization and Gender in Public Performance Evaluations	3
The Closer, the Better? Comparing Advisory Councils at Different Government Levels	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Learn and Adapt, or Perish: The Case of the F35 Lightning II	3
Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents	3
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	3
Indonesian Women’s Civil Service Leadership: Analysis of Career Progression Opportunity and Constraint	3
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	3
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	3
What’s the Hold Up? The FDA’s Delayed Implementation of Menu-Labeling Policy	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	3
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	3
How Leaders of Arm’s Length Agencies Respond to External Threats: A Strategic-Performative Analysis	3
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	3
Does Policy Influence Hollow Out Public Managers’ Political Neutrality?	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	2
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	2
Representative Bureaucracy, Age-Friendly Planning, and the Role of Gender, Public Engagement, and Professional Management	2
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	2
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	2
Modeling Central Asia’s Choices in Containing COVID-19: A Multivariate Study	2
Application of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety to Interorganizational Conflicts in Nonprofit Organizations	2
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	2
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	2
Opposites But Similar? Technocracy and Populism in Contemporary European Democracies	2
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	2
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	2
Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada	2
Can the State Take the Burden? Implementation of Policies to Increase Elderly Enrollment in SNAP	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
From Bureaucratic Discipline to Self-Actualization: Using Marx and Foucault to Critique the Demand for Better Work Rather Than Less Work	2
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	2
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	2
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	2
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	2