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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	32
Rule bending on the frontlines of public service delivery: How and why caseworkers favor the strong	24
Letter from the editor (and announcement for our social media)	20
The fiscal effects of U.S. State budget stabilization funds (BSFs): evidence from a meta-analysis	13
Can rewards foster honest tax behaviors?	12
Why public employees manipulate performance data: prosocial impact, job stress, and red tape	11
Tell me how you really feel: Unpacking sub-dimensions of citizen satisfaction with hospital services	11
Announcing the 2023 best article award	11
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	11
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	11
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	10
Testing Hirschman’s exit, voice, and loyalty model: citizen and provider responses to decline in public health services	10
Accountability and effort among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment	9
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government , by Joanna Podgórska-Rykała. New York: Routledge	9
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	8
Behavioral effects of public service motivation among citizens: testing the case of digital co-production	8
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	8
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	8
Management Accounting in Public Service Decision Making	8
Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics	7
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	6
Leadership training and just-in-time nudges: A field experiment on the transfer of learning into action	6
Does executive turnover affect government transparency? Leadership changes and environmental information disclosure in Chinese cities	6
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	6

Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	6
Letter from the Editor	6
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	5
A perfect match? Exploring the interplay between public service motivation and conscientiousness in predicting public organizational outcomes	5
Does transformational leadership and reputation management relate to employee mission valence: A two-wave study of mission valence in public agencies	5
A meta-analysis of the relationship between public service motivation and individual job performance: cross-validating the effect of culture	5
Do e-government initiatives and e-participation affect the level of budget transparency?	5
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	5
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	5
Local government managementLocal Government Management, edited by Nicolas A. Valcik and Teodoro J. Benavides, New York: Routledge, 2023, 409 pp., £56.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-36702-903-6 (hardback)	5
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	5
Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?	5
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	5
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	5
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	5
Morally motivated public service: An empirical examination of the moral theory of public service motivation	5
Developing capacity and reducing risk? An analysis of federal international contracting	5
The climatization of global politics The Climatization of Global Politics , by StefanAykut and LucileMaertens. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham of Springer Nat	4
The Curious Public Administrator	4
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	4
How corruption affects entrepreneurial exit: Micro-evidence from Chinese entrepreneurs	4
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	4
Understanding the Symbolic Effects of Gender Representation: A Multi-Source Study in Education	4
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	4
The design of opportunities for civil servants’ inter-departmental networking behavior	4
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	4
List of reviewers: 2020	4
Translating trust as a magic concept in public sector reforms: A comparative study of the Danish and Swedish trust reform	4
De-stereotyping public performance evaluation	4
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	4
Coproduction and inclusion: A public administrator perspective	4
The emotional aftermath of choices: Examining how value-congruent behavior and paradox mindset support confident decision making	4
Incentive distributions in heterogeneous work groups	4
Public service motivation and not-in-my-backyard: The case of high-level radioactive waste disposal sites in Japan	4
How does performance feedback shape public managers’ inclination to involve frontline professionals? Evidence from a conjoint experiment	4
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	3
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	3
What resources are needed for engaging in community coproduction? Evidence from China	3
How salient administrative burden affects job seekers’ locus of control and responsibility attribution: Evidence from a survey experiment	3
Outcomes-based contracting and public management reform: Lessons from a decade of experimentation	3
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	3
Higher official wages reduce petty not grand corruption: Evidence from China	3
Deficit politics and surplus politics: a comparative study of Hong Kong and Singapore	3
Local government management	3
Well-being-oriented management (WOM), organizational learning and ambidexterity in public healthcare: a two wave-study	3
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	3
The impact of local government fiscal gaps on public-private partnerships: government demand and private sector risk aversion	3
Going beyond the system: The role of trust in coworker support and organization-based self-esteem in dealing with sexual harassment issues	3
Frontline information disclosure and street-level bureaucrats’ willingness to follow the rules: evidence from local regulatory agencies in China	2
Public value and the digital economy Public Value and the Digital Economy . By Usman W.Chohan, Routledge2022, Published July 29, 2021, by Routledge, 172 Pages 7 B/W Illu	2

Impact of leaders’ public service motivation on educational equity	2
Defending your public kin: public sector identification and street-level bureaucrats’ perceptions of performance	2
The socialization of public service motivation in the home: The effect of parental PSM on the PSM of their progeny	2
Social equity and public administration: The behavioral perspective	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective: Building Effective Strategies for Places , by Vincent Mabi	2
Letter from the editors	2
The scarce evidence behind hybrid and telework policies in government	2
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	2
Managerial networking: A systematic literature review and research agenda	2
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	2
The diverse effects of private competitors on public service performance: evidence from New Jersey’s school system	2
Correction	2
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	2
The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions	1
Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes	1
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	1
Organizational Stress Around the World Research and Practice	1
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	1
Individual responses to using management control practices for hybridizing public-sector organizations: evidence from an emerging country	1
A field experiment on the impact of beneficiary contact on federal employee perceptions of prosocial impact and social worth	1
Trust chains in public sector organizations and their significance for work unit performance and employee turnover intention	1
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	1
The accountability of collaborative innovations in tax administration: A Dutch-US comparison	1
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	1
Personality traits and the use of performance information: enthusiastic and diligent public managers	1
More isn’t always better: exploring the curvilinear effects of telework	1
No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: An audit study of access to nursing homes	1
Connecting the dots between performance management and red tape perceptions	1
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	1
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	1
Patron’s largess and regional borrowing under authoritarian rule	1
Enhancing satisfaction with public services: The effect of recalling personal experiences	1
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	1
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	1
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	1
Association of psychological capital and engagement in coproducing emergency response: evidence from Chinese communities	1
China’s 1994 fiscal reform and local governments’ efforts on fighting industrial pollution	1
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	1
Understanding the role reward types play in linking public service motivation to task satisfaction: evidence from an experiment in China	1
Steering, rowing, and bailing water: The role of government regulation and ownership in COVID-19 outcomes in nursing homes	1
Democracy in and out of bureaucracy: Can participative management and public participation shape citizen satisfaction?	1
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	1
Can regional decrees improve government responsiveness? An empirical study of leaders' directives and local government responses in China	1
Businesses' transaction costs when contracting with governments: the impact of product complexity and public contract management experience	1
Policy regime change and environmental bill submission in China: evidence from provincial panel data (1992–2016)	1
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	1
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	1
When Norway met co-creation: the import, diffusion, and onboarding of a magic concept in public administration	1
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	1