OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Public Management Journal is 4. 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
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
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
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
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
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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