OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Public Management Journal 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The coronavirus crisis—crisis communication, meaning-making, and reputation management	75
Infusing public service motivation (PSM) throughout the employment relationship: a review of PSM and the human resource management process	30
Leadership and public service motivation: a systematic synthesis	22
Measuring public value: scale development and construct validation	21
Does public service motivation foster justification of unethical behavior? Evidence from survey research among citizens	20
Representative bureaucracy in challenging environments: Gender representation, education, and India	16
Rule formalization, gender, and gender congruence: examining prosocial rule breaking for internal and external stakeholders	15
Behavioral effects of public service motivation among citizens: testing the case of digital co-production	15
Can local governments’ disclosure of pandemic information decrease residents’ panic when facing COVID-19 in China?	14
A cross-cultural basis for public service? Public service motivation measurement invariance in an original survey of 23,000 public servants in ten countries and four world regions	13
Leading to make a difference for whom? How vision content moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and public service motivation	12
How salient administrative burden affects job seekers’ locus of control and responsibility attribution: Evidence from a survey experiment	11
The effect of procurement centralization on government purchasing prices: evidence from a field experiment	10
Are managers susceptible to framing effects? An experimental study of professional judgment of performance metrics	10
Genetics and sector of employment	9
Does good governance mean better corporate social performance? A comparative study of OECD countries	9
Nonresponse bias in public leadership research: an empirical assessment	9
Agency control or autonomy? Government steering of Swedish government agencies 2003–2017	9
Public service motivation and sectoral employment in Russia: New perspectives on the attraction vs. socialization debate	8
Does leadership matter for healthcare service quality? Evidence from NHS England	8
Network isomorphism?: A network perspective on the symbolic performance of purpose-oriented networks	8
Do e-government initiatives and e-participation affect the level of budget transparency?	8
Business techniques as an explanation of the autonomy-performance link in corporatized entities: evidence from Dutch Municipally owned corporations	8
Testing Hirschman’s exit, voice, and loyalty model: citizen and provider responses to decline in public health services	8
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	7

Assessing the equity and effectiveness of PerformanceStat systems	7
Trading off financial and non-financial performance information to evaluate state-owned enterprise performance – a process tracing-experiment	7
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Public management and cost overruns in public projects	7
The impact of women’s leadership in local governments: the case of Spain	7
Processing stereotypes: professionalism confirmed or disconfirmed by sector affiliation?	6
The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions	6
When service calls: Public service motivation and calling as complementary concepts for public service	6
How impressions of public employees’ warmth and competence influence trust in government	6
What combinations of conditions lead to high performance of governance networks? A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 12 Sardinian tourist networks	6
Why public employees manipulate performance data: prosocial impact, job stress, and red tape	6
When Norway met co-creation: the import, diffusion, and onboarding of a magic concept in public administration	6
Coproduction and inclusion: A public administrator perspective	6
Relations, resources, and costs: exploring cross-sectoral collaboration at the local level in a developing country	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
Network structure and low-carbon governance performance: a qualitative comparative analysis	5
Bringing in horizontal strategic interactions: local governments’ bandwagon strategy and its implications for performance management	5
Understanding the role reward types play in linking public service motivation to task satisfaction: evidence from an experiment in China	5
Trajectories of local open government: An empirical investigation of managerial and political perceptions	5
Matching leadership to circumstances? A vignette study of leadership behavior adaptation in an ambiguous context	5
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	5
Like father, like son: explicating parental influence on adult children’s public sector preference	4
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	4
Public management in China: reform, innovation and governance	4
Do different presentations of performance information on government websites affect citizens’ decision making? A survey experiment	4
Together forever? The relation between (dis)similar demographics in politico-administrative relationships and executive turnover	4
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	4
Learning to lead with political astuteness	4
Speaking truth to power—How political rhetoric leads to a counter response of LGBTQ street-level bureaucrats	4
Businesses' transaction costs when contracting with governments: the impact of product complexity and public contract management experience	4
A meta-analysis of the relationship between public service motivation and individual job performance: cross-validating the effect of culture	3
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	3
Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era	3
How do performance gaps shape managerial strategy? The role of sector-differences in U.S. nursing homes	3
Individual responses to using management control practices for hybridizing public-sector organizations: evidence from an emerging country	3
Going beyond the system: The role of trust in coworker support and organization-based self-esteem in dealing with sexual harassment issues	3
Schools for democracy? The relationship between nonprofit volunteering and direct public participation	3
Public and private management: now, is there a difference? A systematic review	3
Constructions of noncompliance: narratives and contexts in the case of administrative corruption	3
Provincial governance and financial inclusion: micro evidence from rural Vietnam	3
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	3
The socialization of public service motivation in the home: the effect of parental PSM on the PSM of their progeny	3
Developing capacity and reducing risk? An analysis of federal international contracting	3
Realizing public values in the co-production of public services: the effect of efficacy and trust on coping with public values conflicts	3
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	3
A field experiment on the impact of beneficiary contact on federal employee perceptions of prosocial impact and social worth	3
Managerial networking: a systematic literature review and research agenda	3
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	2
Can a focus on co-created, strengths-based services facilitate early-stage innovation within social impact bonds?	2
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	2

Defending your public kin: public sector identification and street-level bureaucrats’ perceptions of performance	2
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	2
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Elevating public service motivation research and practice	2
‘Through the looking-glass’: addressing methodological issues in analyzing within- and between-sector differences in employee attitudes and behaviors	2
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	2
Performance management in public service organizations: can data be useful to managers even when it is flawed or gamed?	2
Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? –a multi-level multi-case network analysis	2
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	2
Strength in numbers? Understanding the effect of team-level PSM on team effectiveness	2
Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public Service by James L. Perry	2
More isn’t always better: exploring the curvilinear effects of telework	2
Antecedents of trust in the judiciary: between fair process and high satisfaction	2
Deficit politics and surplus politics: a comparative study of Hong Kong and Singapore	2
Can rewards foster honest tax behaviors?	2
A taxonomy of administrative language in public service encounters	2
Red tape: redefinition and reconceptualization based on production theory	2