OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Public Management Journal is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	31
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	22
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	16
A perfect match? Exploring the interplay between public service motivation and conscientiousness in predicting public organizational outcomes	16
Coproduction and inclusion: A public administrator perspective	14
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	12
Public value and the digital economy	11
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	11
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	11
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	11
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	10
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	10
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	9
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	9
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	9
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	9
Correction	9
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	9
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	9
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	8
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	8
Donors and local taxation: assessing the influence of development assistance on municipal revenue generation	8
Understanding the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the “central government-local government-society” framework: a case study on public crisis management during the pandemic in China	8

Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	8
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	7
Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government , by Joanna Podgórska-Rykała. New York: Routledge	7
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	7
Accountability and effort among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment	6
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	6
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	6
The fiscal effects of U.S. State budget stabilization funds (BSFs): evidence from a meta-analysis	6
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	6
The climatization of global politics	5
Letter from the editors	5
List of reviewers: 2020	5
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	5
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	5
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	5
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	5
The Curious Public Administrator	5
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	5
The socialization of public service motivation in the home: The effect of parental PSM on the PSM of their progeny	5
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	5
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	4
No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: An audit study of access to nursing homes	4
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	4
Speaking truth to power—How political rhetoric leads to a counter response of LGBTQ street-level bureaucrats	4
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	4
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	4
Connecting the dots between performance management and red tape perceptions	4
The Parallel Debate between a Narrow and a Broad Definition: A Book Review of the Projectification of the Public Sector	4
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	4
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer , by Robert Agranoff and Aleksey Kolpakov. New York: Ro	4
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	4
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
Co-production during crises: A strategy to mitigate crisis-induced conflicts in public service provision	4
Through the mist: how institution-knowledge bricoleurs make sense of a crisis	3
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	3
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
Modeling the barriers to multistakeholder collaboration for COVID-19 pandemic response: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	3
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	3
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	3
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	3
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	3
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	2
Frontline information disclosure and street-level bureaucrats’ willingness to follow the rules: evidence from local regulatory agencies in China	2
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	2
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	2
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	2

Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	2
Defending your public kin: public sector identification and street-level bureaucrats’ perceptions of performance	2
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	2
Behavioral effects of public service motivation among citizens: testing the case of digital co-production	2
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	2
Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment	1
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	1
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	1
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	1
Individual responses to using management control practices for hybridizing public-sector organizations: evidence from an emerging country	1
Red tape: Redefinition and reconceptualization based on production theory	1
When is “time’s up”? The influence of severity and costs/benefits on perceptions of whistleblowing	1
Processing stereotypes: professionalism confirmed or disconfirmed by sector affiliation?	1
What resources are needed for engaging in community coproduction? Evidence from China	1
Understanding the Symbolic Effects of Gender Representation: A Multi-Source Study in Education	1
Do e-government initiatives and e-participation affect the level of budget transparency?	1
Provincial governance and financial inclusion: micro evidence from rural Vietnam	1
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	1
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	1
How salient administrative burden affects job seekers’ locus of control and responsibility attribution: Evidence from a survey experiment	1
A complexity theory perspective on politico-administrative systems: Insights from a systematic literature review	1
Do different presentations of performance information on government websites affect citizens’ decision making? A survey experiment	1
Realizing public values in the co-production of public services: the effect of efficacy and trust on coping with public values conflicts	1
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	1
Local government management	1
Leadership training and just-in-time nudges: A field experiment on the transfer of learning into action	1
Tell me how you really feel: Unpacking sub-dimensions of citizen satisfaction with hospital services	1
How impressions of public employees’ warmth and competence influence trust in government	1
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	1
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	1
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	1
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	1
Why modify or terminate contracts for critical supplies? Evaluating federal purchasing of PPE following COVID-19	1
Higher official wages reduce petty not grand corruption: Evidence from China	1
The design of opportunities for civil servants’ inter-departmental networking behavior	1
Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?	1