Public Management Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Management Review 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gendered cooperation in a post-NPM era: a comparative study of the perceptions of municipal technostructure experts and middle-line managers228
With or without you: does local autonomy increase intergovernmental collaboration?111
Frames of cooperation: interactional dynamics of pandemic governance networks83
Empowering justice: female police officers’ perspectives on advocating for female victims in South Korea83
Collaborators, supplementers, purchasers and privatizers - profiling the social and health care delivery forms of finnish municipalities through cluster analysis80
Turning rejection into adoption: enhancing the uptake of externally developed design proposals through boundary spanning71
Message-sidedness in performance information disclosure and citizens’ perceived accountability: an experimental study65
Citizen perceptions of public school efficiency: evidence from the U.S.59
A representative-represented matrix: exploring the symbolic effect of minority representation54
Management reforms, re-stratification and the adaptation of professional status hierarchies: The case of medicine in publicly owned hospitals51
Making choices in addressing sustainability problems: A link to framing effects and protected values42
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S Acute Care Hospitals39
Noise at the street level: revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety35
The bureaucratic reputation scale: cross-country and cross-language validation35
Bridging trust through institution and process: how does digital government increase citizens’ trust in local government?35
Do networks get emotional? The role of leaders’ emotions for (network) success34
Operational transparency and satisfaction with public services34
Break my stride? The impact of collaboration entrants on community-level performance for economic development34
Correction32
Transparency and citizen satisfaction: a meta-analysis and future research agenda31
Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms30
Dialogic and agonistic possibilities and limits of visual accounting: an action research of carbon emission reporting in Scottish city council29
Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation29
Empowering leadership in crisis: a natural experiment29
One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation29
What makes co-production sustainable? A comparative case study of three self-managed homeless programs29
The interactive effects of professionalism and politicization: why professional standards and political control mix like oil and water27
Correction26
The effects of artificial intelligence and victims’ deservingness information on citizens’ blame attribution towards administrative errors26
Psychological Contract Fulfillment in a Changing Public Sector: a Mixed-Methods Case-Study26
Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services26
Assuming accountability in the absence of control: the role of stewardship management25
Unpacking street-level discretion: a systematic review of its conceptualizations, antecedents and consequences25
Strategizing public value25
Do institutional pressures increase reactive transparency of government? Evidence from a field experiment24
Capitalization of social service nonprofit activities: homeless service provider openings and home values24
Paths to citizens-controlled coproduction: The use of blockchain technology in digital coproduction24
Fostering value facilitation through situated learning in communities of practice23
The impact of virtual reality on private value dimensions: a healthcare case study23
Value processes and lifecycles in networks for public service innovation23
Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector23
When extreme work becomes the norm: an exploration of coping strategies of public sector nurses22
Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations22
Design strategies for Citizen Strategic Orientation22
Collaboration in action: How micro-level relational dynamics are connected with issue frame convergence in collaborative governance networks21
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context21
Who are leading? A survey of organizational context explaining leadership behaviour of managers and non-managerial employees in public organizations21
Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice20
Fraught with tension? A machine-learning approach to termination traits of public corporations in English and German local governments20
Conflicts over public value within public service ecosystems: a strategic action field approach20
Framework for cross-border governance: from cross-border critical factors to sustainable development19
Broader and more intensive sustainable public procurement: a legitimacy theory perspective19
Public servants’ creativity: salient stimulators and inhibitors a longitudinal qualitative digital diary study19
Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims: evidence using longitudinal data from the European Commission19
An empirical conceptualization of front line enablement by performance management19
Navigating the ‘meaningless’ of social innovation: perspectives of social care practitioners in Scotland19
Does only performance feedback matter in public organizations? Testing the moderating role of directional managerial networking on performance improvement19
User-orientation in public service organizations: making use of value as a thick concept19
Exploring the roles of non-profit organizations in co-production: a systematic literature review19
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-1918
Boundary spanning for contractual fairness in public infrastructure projects: its impact on performance and innovation18
Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic: an integrated conceptual framework18
Blending the two communities: concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes18
Give and take: understanding innovative behaviour from a psychological contract perspective18
The impact of accountability systems on public employee well-being and the moderating effects of role clarity and job autonomy18
Improvements in employee performance management over time: evidence from U.S. federal agencies18
The relational edge: arbitrage as a key capability in platform organizations17
How does the usage of artificial intelligence affect felt administrative accountability of street-level bureaucrats? The mediating effect of perceived discretion17
Citizens’ experiences with a public ombud: applying Beck Jørgensen and Bozeman’s public values model to empirical data17
Advocacy as market stewardship in social care quasi-markets17
Conceptualizing the elements of value in public services: insights from practitioners17
Fit or commitment? A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship and mediating mechanisms between public service motivation and turnover intention17
Complexity, errors, and administrative burdens17
Environmental antecedents, innovation experience, and officials’ innovation willingness: evidence from China17
Does bureaucracy demotivate public servants? An assessment of psychological mechanisms and the moderating role of age16
Performing change: the institutional logics of internal restructuring in the public sector16
When rationality and pragmatism combine into robust models. The case of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Lombardy16
Repairing public trust through communication in health crises: a systematic review of the literature16
Artificial intelligence, types of decisions, and street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a survey experiment16
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector16
Challenges and opportunities for equity in public management: Digital applications in multicultural Smart cities15
Responding to reforms: resilience through rule-bending and workarounds in the police force15
Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: evidence from a conjoint experiment15
Fostering resilience and commitment among volunteers: the role of job demands and autonomy15
Compliance with COVID-19 preventive policies and governmental transparency: an experimental analysis15
Frontline organizations as experimental settings for policy change: why public management matters even more15
Middle managers matter! Unpacking the deployment and adaptation of organization-level dynamic capabilities15
Antecedents of emergency services’ Street Level Bureaucrats’ (SLBs) delivery of public value: an exploratory study15
Key drivers and barriers to senior public managers’ engagement in digital service innovative behaviour: a qualitative study14
Engaging experts by experience as co-producers: challenges and strategies14
Improvisational theatre as a viable path? Exploring interaction antecedents in public service innovation processes attempting to implement and sustain eHealth solutions14
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships: evidence from four municipalities of China14
Hidden AI innovations in the public sector: the role of political constraints, bureaucracy, and legitimacy in the adoption of AI-based personnel selection14
Ongoing strategizing in practice: Examining CEO activities and a social enterprise’s pathways to growth and greater effectiveness13
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations13
Manager characteristics and early innovation adoption during crises: the case of COVID-19 preventive measures in Danish Eldercare13
Citizens engaging in public service provision: value co-creation or hard work?13
Performance feedback and policy diffusion: evidence from Chinese city governments subsidizing new energy vehicles13
Individual, organizational, and institutional accountability: a systematic literature review in public administration13
From the inside looking out: towards an ecosystem paradigm of third sector organizational performance measurement13
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study12
Driving nonprofit hospitals to address health equity in community12
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program12
Digital innovation across the publicness spectrum12
Public values? A systematic literature review into the outcomes of public service co-creation12
Citizen expectations, agency reputation and public service quality12
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England12
Understanding interlocal collaboration for service delivery for migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Guangdong, China12
Performance management in collaborations: exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use11
Does (professional) leadership matter for staff satisfaction? Evidence from a panel study of hospital boards11
The rise and fall of an NPM-style reform in China: a longitudinal case study of sanitation service delivery in Guangzhou11
Coping with occupational stereotypes: an emotional lens on police officers’ experiences11
Does E-filing improve nonprofit reporting timeliness? evidence from IRS Form 990 data11
Social enterprise as political work: perspectives from the global south11
Idiosyncrasies of public value: how individual characteristics influence citizen perceptions of public value11
Introducing strategic measures in public facilities management organizations: external and internal institutional work11
Heart over profit: unravelling the discourse on the non-profit sector’s added value11
Examining the effects of a performance management reform on employee attitudes and organizational climate11
Procurement under pressure: shifting governance strategies in turbulent times11
Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates10
Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model10
Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review10
Ready, set, crisis – transitioning to crisis mode in local public administration10
Public service motivation and policy implementation attitudes: survey experimental evidence from Street-level Bureaucrats in China10
Politics and personalities: the 1986 Commonwealth Games as strategic action field10
Legitimacy building in crisis: how citizen-led mutual aid self-organizations emerged and survived during Shanghai’s COVID-19 Outbreak10
A patchwork quilt of public administration models without early weberianism? Public management reforms in Colombia since the 1980s10
Development of hybrid professionalism: street-level managers’ work and the enabling conditions of public reform10
‘I do not want to be one of her favourites’. Emotional display and the co-production of frontline care services10
Bureaucratic encounter, voice behaviour and citizen satisfaction10
Social equity for wicked problems: achieving racial equity in homeless service provision10
Sustainability transformation calls for complexity-informed systemic policy design10
Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement10
Bringing together unlikely innovators: do connective and learning capacities impact collaboration for innovation and diversity of actors?10
Two decades of public sector innovation: building an analytical framework from a systematic literature review of types, strategies, conditions, and results10
Buffer and booster? Testing PSM’s role in job demands-resources theory10
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions10
Bureaucrat or artificial intelligence: people’s preferences and perceptions of government service10
Bridging politics and projects: how political affinity and government support affect delays in public–private partnership initiation10
Receiving and engaging: can a simple ICT delivered government message change citizen health behavior? A field experiment10
Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials9
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?9
Two sides of the same coin: how does civil servants’ public service motivation affect work-family conflict?9
Can the experience in COVID-19 prevention and control improve the emergency response capacity of local civil servants in China?9
Be prepared! Local politicians’ proclivity for local government adaptive capacity building in response to COVID-19: the role of risk perceptions9
Relationships matter: how workplace social capital affects absenteeism of public sector employees9
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study9
How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance: the case of La Vuelta Holanda9
Impact of relational and moral motives on social innovation: the mediating role of value co-creation9
Love thy neighbour? Management team environment and effective leadership behaviour in public organizations9
The role of employee empowerment in promoting perceived behavioural control over whistleblowing: implications for public organizations9
Organizing a sport mega-event in a poor and earthquaked country: the case of Chile´s 1962 world cup9
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts9
Role perceptions, collaboration and performance: insights from identity theory9
Encourage or impede? The relationship between trust in government and coproduction9
Job sector or PSM? Examining the relative effects of sector and public service motivation on prosocial behaviour9
Agency orientation and bureaucratic behaviour towards clients: evidence from a survey experiment among unemployment caseworkers9
Self-organizing work in practice: the case of community-based flooding initiatives in Scotland9
Trust in nursing home services within weak regulatory regimes: the role of information, control and participation9
Design for inclusive digital co-production9
Unlocking the process of collaborative innovation - Combining mechanisms of divergence and convergence9
A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation9
Can information frames nudge citizens to co-produce in emergency preparedness? —evidence from a survey experiment9
Designing response networks in turbulent times: necessary and sufficient conditions9
Internalizing transparency and its relationship with corruption: insights from Colombian public servants8
Correction8
Forced online-level bureaucrats during the pandemic. Analysing the telework experience of social service workers8
The impact of telework on the satisfaction of U.S. federal workers8
Understanding stringency of performance systems: the case of performance-based funding in U.S. higher education8
Flying with clipped wings: dynamic capabilities of publicly owned health care providers8
Effect of knowledge search depth, user co-creation and moderating factors on the outcomes of service innovations by European public sector organizations8
Interlocal collaborative processes and network position: the combined effects on environmental performance8
Using Twitter to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of United States governors8
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance: a mapping of clashes and compromises8
Avoiding bureaucratese: the impact of bureaucratic language in digital public encounters8
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks: an experimental study8
Supervisory autonomy support: does it strengthen the PSM—Employee engagement relationship?8
Exploring the dysfunctional consequences of performance evaluation systems: how does ‘evaluation overload’ affect organizational performance?8
Practicing knowledge-agency in highly vulnerable communities: the frontlines of Governance in delivering Brazilian Human services8
Shifting oversight: the evolution of modern police performance management in England and Wales8
Government crisis messaging on social media, citizen online engagement and compliance with policies8
Unveiling how power manifests in street-level interactions: implications for value co-creation8
Staff (mis)allocation in public agencies: evidence from protected area management in Brazil8
Exploring tensions between appropriateness and consequences in digitally-induced change: empirical evidence from a public museum7
Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material7
Institutional environment and passive co-production: exploring the roles of government deterrence and social norms7
Organizing for co-production: the role of leadership cultures7
How does citizen-centric co-production lead to value co-creation? A perspective of interactive governance7
Insights into public management from policing: introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review7
How is empathy used in public service? A systematic literature review7
Public service management reform: an institutional work and collective framing approach7
Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking7
Influence of public innovation laboratories on the development of public sector ambidexterity7
Sector switchers, what drives you? Exploring career shifts from private to public sector7
Police leadership at the political interface: A systematic literature review7
Public officials’ motivated reasoning and their interpretation of policy information7
Mitigating collaborative inertia: how leadership transfer networks improve the low-carbon governance of local governments7
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits: moving from words to action7
Who “We” are matters: the influence of organizational identity orientation on public participation in government7
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses7
Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives7
The influence of new public management on the police first-line manager: exploring the challenges faced by practitioner managers7
Assumptions about behaviour influence the policy preferences of public officials7
New public management in U.S. higher education: is privatization associated with lower costs?6
Collaborative governance in strong state settings: perceived voluntariness and the role of the state in Rural China6
Fast fashion: the rapid layering of management fashions in the Swedish city of Gothenburg6
Drivers of collaborative governance for the green transition6
When the time is right: testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance6
Exploring the virtuous circle of societal value creation and capture by non-profit organizations from a Bourdieusian perspective6
Realizing NetZero in social housing: strategic public procurement and internal stakeholder engagement6
Public service resilience post-Covid: Introduction to the special issue6
Performance feedback, blame avoidance, and data manipulation in the public sector: evidence from China’s official city air quality ranking6
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework6
Factors influencing citizens’ adoption of e-government: an empirical validation in a Developing Latin American Country6
Managing the performance of healthcare networks: a ‘dance’ between control and collaboration6
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia6
Accountability in outsourced public service delivery: an Australian study6
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review6
A review of open strategy: bridging strategy and public management research6
Value co-destruction through misintegration of resources within a public service ecosystem6
Organizational fragmentation and service performance of municipal water districts6
Let’s pack the backpack together: rethinking routines in public innovation as interactions and public value creation6
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland6
Exploring the impact of collaboration processes on policy networks success: a case study of food policy councils6
‘We are all vulnerable, we are all fragile’: COVID-19 as opportunity for, or constraint on, health service resilience in Colombia?6
Network governance of collaborative innovation: a bipartite network perspective6
Learning from public administration faculty: emotional labour, burnout, and solutions6
Does merging mandated collaborative governance networks improve community-based community outputs?6
The role of resource allocation for regime performance in networks for local integration policies6
Does the teaming of career street-level bureaucrats and lay officials promote street-level resolutions that favour the citizens’ claims?6
Private organization’s moral behaviour and citizen support for public-private partnerships: evidence from a survey experiment6
Beyond reporting: What drives performance data use in sustainability management? Empirical evidence from U.S. cities6
Implementing AI in the public sector6
Do network management and trust matter for network outcomes? A meta-analysis and research agenda6
The dual nature of innovation in government: differentiating between generation and borrowing6
Paradoxes in collaborative governance6
Exploring interactions among PPP institutional variables along market maturity levels5
Reducing administrative burdens to increase the take-up of public services: the case of vaccination intentions5
Orchestrating public reforms through joint organizations: the case of a new remuneration policy in Belgian healthcare5
Abusive supervision and turnover intention among public servants: the roles of psychological distress and person-organization fit5
Civil servants’ inter-departmental social ties as an impetus for voicing ideas for improvement5
Co-production with vulnerable people: an exploratory study in mental health care5
Promoting ethical voice in the police: a daily Examination of ethical vision, LMX ambivalence, and interpersonal justice5
Strategic planning and performance perceptions of managers and citizens: analysing multiple mediations5
Conceptual foundations of workforce homogeneity in the public sector. Insights from a systematic review on causes, consequences, and blind spots5
Ensuring social equity through service integration design5
HRM autonomy, integration and performance in government agencies: tests of necessity and sufficiency5
Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway5
Media, trust, and the influence of urban/rural context and education on public sector worker stereotypes5
Who becomes a civil servant? Evidence from a decade of youth panel analysis5
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