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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Leadership and public service motivation: a systematic synthesis	32
Behavioral effects of public service motivation among citizens: testing the case of digital co-production	24
How salient administrative burden affects job seekers’ locus of control and responsibility attribution: Evidence from a survey experiment	20
Can local governments’ disclosure of pandemic information decrease residents’ panic when facing COVID-19 in China?	14
Do e-government initiatives and e-participation affect the level of budget transparency?	13
The impact of women’s leadership in local governments: the case of Spain	12
Processing stereotypes: professionalism confirmed or disconfirmed by sector affiliation?	11
When Norway met co-creation: the import, diffusion, and onboarding of a magic concept in public administration	11
Nonresponse bias in public leadership research: an empirical assessment	11
Testing Hirschman’s exit, voice, and loyalty model: citizen and provider responses to decline in public health services	11
How impressions of public employees’ warmth and competence influence trust in government	11
Public and private management: Now, is there a difference? A systematic review	10
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	10
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Why public employees manipulate performance data: prosocial impact, job stress, and red tape	9
Public service motivation and sectoral employment in Russia: New perspectives on the attraction vs. socialization debate	9
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	9
The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions	8
Assessing the equity and effectiveness of PerformanceStat systems	8
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	8
Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era	8
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	8
Understanding the role reward types play in linking public service motivation to task satisfaction: evidence from an experiment in China	7
Relations, resources, and costs: exploring cross-sectoral collaboration at the local level in a developing country	7
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	6

Coproduction and inclusion: A public administrator perspective	6
Can a focus on co-created, strengths-based services facilitate early-stage innovation within social impact bonds?	6
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	6
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Businesses' transaction costs when contracting with governments: the impact of product complexity and public contract management experience	6
Schools for democracy? The relationship between nonprofit volunteering and direct public participation	6
Network structure and low-carbon governance performance: a qualitative comparative analysis	6
Trajectories of local open government: An empirical investigation of managerial and political perceptions	5
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	5
More isn’t always better: exploring the curvilinear effects of telework	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	5
A taxonomy of administrative language in public service encounters	5
Like father, like son: explicating parental influence on adult children’s public sector preference	5
Matching leadership to circumstances? A vignette study of leadership behavior adaptation in an ambiguous context	5
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	5
The socialization of public service motivation in the home: The effect of parental PSM on the PSM of their progeny	5
A meta-analysis of the relationship between public service motivation and individual job performance: cross-validating the effect of culture	5
Together forever? The relation between (dis)similar demographics in politico-administrative relationships and executive turnover	5
Realizing public values in the co-production of public services: the effect of efficacy and trust on coping with public values conflicts	5
Modeling the barriers to multistakeholder collaboration for COVID-19 pandemic response: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Association of psychological capital and engagement in coproducing emergency response: evidence from Chinese communities	5
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	5
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	4
Crisis severity, fiscal capacity, and COVID-19 spending: a cross-country analysis	4
Individual responses to using management control practices for hybridizing public-sector organizations: evidence from an emerging country	4
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	4
Developing capacity and reducing risk? An analysis of federal international contracting	4
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	4
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	4
Provincial governance and financial inclusion: micro evidence from rural Vietnam	4
Defending your public kin: public sector identification and street-level bureaucrats’ perceptions of performance	4
Translating trust as a magic concept in public sector reforms: A comparative study of the Danish and Swedish trust reform	4
Elevating public service motivation research and practice	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
Gender differences in performance-driven managerial innovation: evidence from US nursing homes	4
Managerial networking: A systematic literature review and research agenda	4
Understanding the Symbolic Effects of Gender Representation: A Multi-Source Study in Education	4
Do different presentations of performance information on government websites affect citizens’ decision making? A survey experiment	4
Organizational forms of corruption networks: the Odebrecht-Toledo case	3
Performance management in public service organizations: can data be useful to managers even when it is flawed or gamed?	3
Going beyond the system: The role of trust in coworker support and organization-based self-esteem in dealing with sexual harassment issues	3
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	3
Can rewards foster honest tax behaviors?	3
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	3
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
A field experiment on the impact of beneficiary contact on federal employee perceptions of prosocial impact and social worth	3
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	3
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	3

My superior’s appreciation, my subordinates’ promotion: experimental evidence of a promotion decision model of middle-level bureaucrats in China	3
Strength in numbers? Understanding the effect of team-level PSM on team effectiveness	3
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	3
Well-being-oriented management (WOM), organizational learning and ambidexterity in public healthcare: a two wave-study	3
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	3
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
Social impact bonds and the tactics of feasibility: experience from Chile, Colombia and France	2
The impact of local government fiscal gaps on public-private partnerships: government demand and private sector risk aversion	2
Public-private differences in incentive structures: a laboratory experiment on work motivation and performance	2
Unraveling the socio-cognitive perspective: adoption of innovation in a public funded hospital	2
Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public Service by James L. Perry	2
Women cry, men get angry: how street-level bureaucrats respond when clients exhibit counter-stereotypical behavior	2
Frontline information disclosure and street-level bureaucrats’ willingness to follow the rules: evidence from local regulatory agencies in China	2
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	2
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	2
When is “time’s up”? The influence of severity and costs/benefits on perceptions of whistleblowing	2
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	2
Red tape: Redefinition and reconceptualization based on production theory	2
Deficit politics and surplus politics: a comparative study of Hong Kong and Singapore	2
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	2
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	2
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	2
Accountability and effort among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment	1
Limiting managerial discretion by regulation: nursing homes and the national background check program	1
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	1
Back to the future revisited: A systematic literature review of performance-related pay in the public sector	1
The Parallel Debate between a Narrow and a Broad Definition: A Book Review of the Projectification of the Public Sector	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
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	1
Improving fire department turnout times: training versus sanctions in a high public service motivation environment	1
Outcomes-based contracting and public management reform: Lessons from a decade of experimentation	1
Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?	1
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	1
Municipal cost behavior during financial crisis and financial sustainability periods: Evidence from Spain	1
The fiscal effects of U.S. State budget stabilization funds (BSFs): evidence from a meta-analysis	1
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	1
The role of intersectionality in exploring the asymmetrical effects of demographic dissimiliarity on employees	1
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	1
Enhancing satisfaction with public services: The effect of recalling personal experiences	1
Civic duty and career outcomes in a career-based system: a two-wave, multisource study	1
The diverse effects of private competitors on public service performance: evidence from New Jersey’s school system	1
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	1
Public service motivation and not-in-my-backyard: The case of high-level radioactive waste disposal sites in Japan	1
Morally motivated public service: An empirical examination of the moral theory of public service motivation	1
Leadership training and just-in-time nudges: A field experiment on the transfer of learning into action	1
Public and private differences in employees’ values: a cross-country investigation of Schwartz’s basic human values theory	1
Rule bending on the frontlines of public service delivery: How and why caseworkers favor the strong	1
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	1
Donors and local taxation: assessing the influence of development assistance on municipal revenue generation	1
A complexity theory perspective on politico-administrative systems: Insights from a systematic literature review	1
Democracy in and out of bureaucracy: Can participative management and public participation shape citizen satisfaction?	1
Policy regime change and environmental bill submission in China: evidence from provincial panel data (1992–2016)	1
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	1
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	1
De-stereotyping public performance evaluation	1
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	1