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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	28
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
The effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms in a region of Europe: the role of social empowerment	27
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	26
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	26
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	25
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	24
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	23
Handbook on measuring governance	22
Public value and the digital economy	20
Correction	17
Coproduction encouragement can backfire: evidence from randomized controlled trials	16
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	15
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	15
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	14
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	13
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	13
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	12
Representation and high-risk clients: an empirical examination of gender effects in healthcare	12
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	11
Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement	11
Personality traits and the endorsement of competing leadership roles: evidence from officer cadets enrolled in the Danish Defense College	11
Machine learning in public administration research: review and prospects	10
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	10
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	10

Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	10
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	9
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	9
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	9
Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	9
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	9
The Curious Public Administrator	8
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	8
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	8
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	8
The climatization of global politics	7
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	7
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	7
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	7
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	7
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Letter from the editor	6
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	6
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	6
Letter from the editors	6
How knowledge sharing shapes the performance of U.S. federal agencies: The importance of agency task characteristics	5
Managing public-private collaboration: extensive and intensive accountability	5
Recent developments in experimental public administration: a systematic literature review of lab, survey, and field experiments	5
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	5
Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank	5
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Digital media use and public engagement in nongovernmental organizations: Reflections from three Sub-Saharan African countries	4
Outsourcing safety regulation and public blame attribution for regulatory failures: Evidence from survey experiments	4
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	4
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	4
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	4
Service decline and policymaker support for coproduction: evidence from a survey experiment	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	4
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	4
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	4
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	3
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	3
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	3
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	3
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
Bridging the trust gap through proactive transparency: evidence from a survey experiment	3
The social construction of performance judgements: Do opinions of others influence how citizens evaluate government?	3

Long-run impacts of performance feedback: evidence of organizational learning and forgetting	3
A decade of subnational gender budgeting and its effects in India: A difference-in-differences analysis	3
Organizational capabilities and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian municipal governments	3
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	3
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	3
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2
Expanding Kelman’s vision for digital transformation in public procurement	2
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	2
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	2
Letter from the editor	2
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	2
A complexity theory perspective on politico-administrative systems: Insights from a systematic literature review	2
Courageous decision making in public organizations: the roles of ethical leadership and dynamic capabilities	2
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	2
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
The role of exogenous macro shocks in shaping the appeal of government employment	2
How generative artificial intelligence shapes citizens’ perceptions of public value: An experimental study	2
Mapping response during the wartime: A network study of the humanitarian crisis efforts in Ukraine	2
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	1
Why modify or terminate contracts for critical supplies? Evaluating federal purchasing of PPE following COVID-19	1
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	1
Revisiting the importance of representation and glass cliffs in predicting the selection of women to lead public sector organizations	1
Achieving organizational transformation: Leadership and strategic planning as a structurational process	1
The design of opportunities for civil servants’ inter-departmental networking behavior	1
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	1
Misprocurement and public performance in Cambodia: reflections on reform and resistance	1
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	1
What resources are needed for engaging in community coproduction? Evidence from China	1
Leadership training and just-in-time nudges: A field experiment on the transfer of learning into action	1
Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?	1
Tell me how you really feel: Unpacking sub-dimensions of citizen satisfaction with hospital services	1
Leading intra-organizational collaboration among public employees: a mixed methods study	1
Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment	1
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	1
Higher official wages reduce petty not grand corruption: Evidence from China	1
Intersectional identities in administrative encounters: empirical evidence from traffic policing	1
Local government management	1