OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Public Management Journal is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	23
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	20
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	20
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	18
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	17
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	16
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	16
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	15
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	15
Public value and the digital economy	15
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	14
Correction	13
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	13
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	12
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	11
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	11
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	11
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	11
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	10
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	10
Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement	10
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	9
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	8

Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	8
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	8
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	7
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	7
The Curious Public Administrator	7
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	7
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	7
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	7
The climatization of global politics	6
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	6
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	6
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	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	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	6
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Letter from the editors	6
Connecting the dots between performance management and red tape perceptions	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	5
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	5
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: An audit study of access to nursing homes	5
Letter from the editor	5
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	5