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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems247
Implementing collaborative governance: models, experiences, and challenges62
Design for experience – a public service design approach in the age of digitalization51
Sense of community, sense of community responsibility, organizational commitment and identification, and public service motivation: a simultaneous test of affective states on employee well-being and e50
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study45
A public management perspective on smart cities: ‘Urban auditing’ for management, governance and accountability43
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats41
Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-1939
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation38
Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation in US local government services: balancing fiscal stress, need and political interests37
Social entrepreneurship in the context of disaster recovery: Organizing for public value creation37
Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems36
Public service motivation and prosocial motivation: two sides of the same coin?34
Team innovation through collaboration: how visionary leadership spurs innovation via team cohesion33
Crowding-in or crowding-out: the contribution of self-determination theory to public service motivation33
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements33
Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?32
South Korea’s fast response to coronavirus disease: implications on public policy and public management theory32
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance?32
Self-determination theory goes public: experimental evidence on the causal relationship between psychological needs and job satisfaction28
Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China28
Policy narratives and megaprojects: the case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway27
Does performance-related pay and public service motivation research treat state-owned enterprises like a neglected Cinderella? A systematic literature review and agenda for future research on performa27
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce27
Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic26
Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic26
A validated measurement for felt relational accountability in the public sector: gauging the account holder’s legitimacy and expertise25
How does organizational sustainability foster public service motivation and job satisfaction? The mediating role of organizational support and societal impact potential25
Combined effects of procurement and collaboration on innovation in public-private-partnerships: a qualitative comparative analysis of 24 infrastructure projects25
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India24
Disentangling altruism and public service motivation: who exhibits organizational citizenship behaviour?22
Facilitating collaboration in publicly mandated governance networks21
Representative bureaucracy and hierarchy: interactions among leadership, middle-level, and street-level bureaucracy21
Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership21
Continuous co-creation: how ongoing involvement impacts outcomes of co-creation21
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-1921
Is the turtle still plodding along? Public management reform in Germany21
Intra-organizational trust in public organizations – the study of interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective20
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state20
Local government as a catalyst for promoting social enterprise19
Lack of reform in Israeli local government and its impact on modern developments in public management19
Gender and performance in public organizations: a research synthesis and research agenda19
Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda19
Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?19
Planning Cities4People–A body and soul analysis of urban neighbourhoods19
Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations18
Giving sense about paradoxes: paradoxical leadership in the public sector18
Design in the public sector: Toward a human centred model of public governance17
How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats: transformational leadership, organizational learning, and professionalization strategies in the delivery of social assistance17
Leadership and innovation: what’s the story? The relationship between leadership support level and innovation target17
E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure17
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England17
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis17
Neighbourhood governance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hangzhou: coproduction based on digital technologies17
Activating job crafting in public services: the roles of discretionary human resource practices and employee use of normative public values16
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness16
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?16
Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China16
Cross-sector collaboration formality: the effects of institutions and organizational leaders16
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review16
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden15
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective15
Does digitizing involve desensitizing? Strategic insights into the side effects of workplace digitization15
Motivated to act and take responsibility – integrating insights from community psychology in PSM research15
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?15
Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities15
Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies14
Having it all: can collaborative governance be both legitimate and accountable?14
Performance information and learning effects on citizen satisfaction with public services14
Strategizing on behalf of social enterprises: the case of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association and Catalyst14
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany14
What drives network effectiveness? A configurational approach14
Barriers to entrepreneurship in public enterprises: boards contributing to inertia14
A view into managers’ subjective experiences of public service motivation and work engagement: a qualitative study13
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards13
Beyond the tipping point: the curvilinear relationships of transformational leadership, leader–member exchange, and emotional exhaustion in the French police13
Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style13
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city13
Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise12
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature12
Budget transparency and governance quality: a cross-country analysis12
The adoption of e-Health in public hospitals. Unfolding the gender dimension of TMT and line managers12
Public sector innovation in context: A comparative study of innovation types12
Mutuality in AI-enabled new public service solutions12
Collaborative networks and environmental governance performance: a social influence model12
Public health care innovation lab tackling the barriers of public sector innovation12
AI as an organizational agent to nurture: effectively introducing chatbots in public entities11
When the going gets tough, the goal-committed get going: overcoming the transaction costs of inter-agency collaborative governance11
Crisis lifecycle, policy response, and policy effectiveness11
Business model innovation in the public sector: an integrative framework11
Internal brand management in the public sector: the effects of internal communication, organizational practices, and PSM on employees’ brand perceptions11
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective11
Financial capacity and organizational stability in U.S. local governments11
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation11
Does non-profit commercialization help reduce social inequality? Revisiting the cross-subsidization hypothesis11
Social entrepreneurs as change makers: expanding public service networks for social innovation10
The perceived effectiveness of collaborative approaches to address domestic violence: the role of representation, ‘reverse-representation,’ embeddedness, and resources10
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework10
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability10
Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China10
Examining the impact of control and ownership on social enterprises’ public value creation using integrative publicness theory10
Understanding financial resilience from a resource-based view: Evidence from US state governments10
Contact with citizens and job satisfaction: expanding person-environment models of public service motivation10
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review10
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes10
What contributes to the sustainability of self-organized non-profit collaboration in disaster relief?A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis10
After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 1910
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts10
Illiberal challenges to mainstream public management research: Hungary as an exemplary case10
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: a survey experiment in China10
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services10
The impact of technological innovation on service delivery: social media and smartphone integration in a 311 system10
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector10
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship9
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance9
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations9
Boundary-spanning in public value co-creation through the lens of multilevel governance9
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness: A 30-year assessment and future agenda for public administration9
Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration9
Determinants of open innovation adoption in public organizations: a systematic review9
What happens when the going gets tough? Linking change scepticism, organizational identification, and turnover intentions9
Public management reform in Brazil (2002-2019)9
Perceived racial discrimination in the workplace: considering minority supervisory representation and inter-minority relations9
‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: a framework for examining double binds in public service organizations9
What makes work smart in the public sector? Insights from a bibliometric analysis and interpretive literature review9
Publicness and micro-level risk behaviour: experimental evidence on stereotypical discounting behaviour9
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement: a panel study in Pakistan9
The value of public organizations’ diversity reputation in women’s and minorities’ job choice decisions8
Public leadership and participation: understanding the experiences of South African local government officials’ engagement within informal settlements in the Western Cape8
Death anxiety among street-level bureaucrats: how does it affect their work drive and performance?8
Representation, reputation and expectations towards bureaucracy: experimental findings from a favela in Brazil8
Can effective organizational rules keep employees from leaving? a study of green tape and turnover intention8
Strategic planning and performance perceptions of managers and citizens: analysing multiple mediations8
Revenue diversification or revenue concentration? Impact on financial health of social enterprises8
Information sharing in public-private relationships: the role of boundary objects in contracts8
The impact of management on NFP and FP social enterprises governed by government contracts and legislation8
Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking8
Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund8
Performance management from the bottom up8
Mobilizing to take responsibility: exploring the relationship between Sense of Community Responsibility (SOC-R), Public Service Motivation (PSM) and public service resilience during Covid-198
Bought in? The contingent effect of stakeholder support upon strategic implementation success in American municipalities8
Understanding street‐level bureaucrats’ informal collaboration: Evidence from police officers across the jurisdictional divide8
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study8
The evolutionary trajectory of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia7
Governing collaborations: the case of a pioneering settlement services partnership in Australia7
Introducing research insights into the third sector, social enterprise and public service delivery7
Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability7
Agency autonomy, public service motivation, and organizational performance7
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample7
Partisan bias and citizen satisfaction, confidence, and trust in the U.S. Federal Government7
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments7
‘Explain, but make no excuses’: service recovery after public service failures7
Market competition and regulatory compliance in public, non-profit, and for-profit organizations7
Does politicization influence senior public officials’ work attitudes? Different forms and effects of politicization in the civil service7
Public servants’ creativity: salient stimulators and inhibitors a longitudinal qualitative digital diary study7
Does gender matter in budget deviations? An empirical assessment of Spanish local governments7
Empowering the frontline: internal and external organizational antecedents of teacher empowerment7
Co-production ‘thinking’ and performance implications in the case of separate waste collection7
Developing a vulnerability-based conceptual model for managing risk in non-profit projects: a multicase study in a European country7
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study7
Doing better with less: do behavioural capabilities affect street level bureaucrats’ ability to deliver public value?7
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland7
Marching through the deep-water zone: Chinese public sector reforms and the way forwards7
The complexities of digitization and street-level discretion: a socio-materiality perspective7
Nurturing mutual gains in the public sector: the roles of socially responsible human resource practices, employee use of normative public values, and job crafting7
Fight or flight: How gender influences follower responses to unethical leader behaviour7
The necessity of collaboration in branding: analysing the conditions for output legitimacy through qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)6
Understanding vertical pay dispersion in the public sector: the role of publicness for manager-to-worker pay ratios and interdisciplinary agenda for future research6
Creeping crises and public administration: a time for adaptive governance strategies and cross-sectoral collaboration?6
Public management reforms in Pakistan6
Public sector reform and public management theory ―cases of Japan6
No two-party game: how third-sector organizations alter administrative burden and improve social equity6
Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems6
Hybrid professional managers in healthcare: an expanding or thwarted occupational interest?6
Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs6
Attraction and attrition under extreme conditions– integrating insights on PSM, SOC-R, SOC and excitement motivation6
English local government finance in transition: towards the ‘marketization of income’6
Public trust and collaborative governance: an instrumental variable approach6
A qualitative comparative analysis of collaborative governance structures as applied in urban gardens6
Citizens as an innovation source in sustainability transitions – linking the directionality of innovations with the locus of the problem in transformative innovation policy6
The many shapes and sizes of meta-governance. An empirical study of strategies applied by a well-advanced meta-governor: the case of Dutch central government in education6
Applying organizational density to local public service performance: separating homeless service outcomes from outputs6
Virtual agents in the public service: examining citizens’ value-in-use6
Mayoral preferences for delegation in collaborative arrangements: issue salience and policy specificity6
Exploring network mechanisms to organizations’ influence reputation: a case of collaborative disaster response6
Ambiguity, appraisal, and affect: examining the connections between goal perceptions, emotional labour, and exhaustion6
Learning how to do AI: managing organizational boundaries in an intergovernmental learning forum6
Government crisis messaging on social media, citizen online engagement and compliance with policies6
Revisiting the old debate: citizens’ perceptions of meritocracy in public and private organizations6
Ethical leadership and program to reduce unethical behaviour among public employees6
To measure or not to measure?An empirical investigation of social impact measurement in UK social enterprises6
Experts’ contribution to strategy when strategy is absent. A case study of quality experts in hospitals6
Conceptualizing the elements of value in public services: insights from practitioners5
Governmental support strategies and their effects on private capital engagement in public–private partnerships5
Satisficing or maximizing in public–private partnerships? A laboratory experiment on strategic bargaining5
Co-production at the front line: a user reflection on theory and practice5
Relational leadership in local governance: the engagement of mayors with citizens, public managers and politicians5
‘I do not want to be one of her favourites’. Emotional display and the co-production of frontline care services5
Public management during a crisis: when are citizens willing to contribute to institutional emergency preparedness?5
The differing effects of individual- and group-based pay for performance on employee satisfaction: the role of the perceived fairness of performance evaluations5
Negative media reporting and its effects on performance information use in public spending5
The impact of telework on the satisfaction of U.S. federal workers5
Evidence use as sociomaterial practice? A qualitative study of decision-making on introducing service innovations in health care5
Public service logic and the creation of value propositions through framing5
Workgroup innovative behaviours in the public sector workplace: the influence of servant leadership and workgroup climates5
In search of legitimacy: conflicting logics and identities of management consultants in public administration5
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context5
Bureaucrat or artificial intelligence: people’s preferences and perceptions of government service5
Introducing strategic measures in public facilities management organizations: external and internal institutional work5
Hybrid goals: institutional complexity and ‘legacy’ in a global sporting mega-event5
Understanding diverse types of performance information use: evidence from an institutional isomorphism perspective5
Exploring local government fiscal slack in a political-budgetary-managerial framework5
Enabling PSL and value co-creation through public engagement: a study of municipal service regeneration5
Implementing AI in the public sector5
Who can serve as the proxy for public employees in public administration experiments? a cross-sample comparison5
Value processes and lifecycles in networks for public service innovation5
A review of open strategy: bridging strategy and public management research5
Relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state during the COVID-19 pandemic: complementary, supplementary, or adversarial?5
The threat of appearing lazy, inefficient, and slow? Stereotype threat in the public sector5
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance: a mapping of clashes and compromises5
A time differencing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of public-private partnership (PPP) market maturity5
Government transparency: paradoxes and dilemmas5
Speaking on behalf of the vulnerable? Voluntary translations of citizen needs to policy in community co-production5
The tripod of trust: a multilevel approach to trust-based leadership in public organizations4
Power and conflict in network governance: exclusive and inclusive forms of network administrative organizations4
Who are leading? A survey of organizational context explaining leadership behaviour of managers and non-managerial employees in public organizations4
Activating employees’ motivation to increase intentions to report wrongdoings: evidence from a large-scale survey experiment4
Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory4
The new era leadership for the public sector? Entrepreneurship, effectiveness, and democracy4
‘Real-world’ priority setting for service improvement in English primary care: a decentred approach4
The importance of effectiveness versus transparency and stakeholder involvement in citizens’ perception of public sector algorithms4
Navigating network governance: the role of social enterprise in local employment services4
A practice approach to fostering employee engagement in innovation initiatives in public service organisations4
Public service performance from the perspective of marketing and innovation capabilities4
Development of hybrid professionalism: street-level managers’ work and the enabling conditions of public reform4
A tension lens for understanding public innovation diffusion processes4
Workplace spirituality and service-oriented performance via work engagement in public organizations: the moderating role of service climate4
Resource dependence and the survival of government-created social enterprises4
How do different organizational influences lead street-level workers to move towards clients? A comparison of care services for the elderly in Germany and Israel4
Public opinion on megaprojects over time: findings from four megaprojects in the UK4
Role perceptions, collaboration and performance: insights from identity theory4
A critique of public service logic4
Professional managers, public values? The delicate balance between corporatization and stewardship to society4
Do visionary and servant leaders reduce cognitive uncertainty of professionals? A study of team-based settings in public organizations4
In search of a golden thread: recent developments in public management across New Zealand and Australia4
Governing long-term policy problems: Dilemmas and strategies at a Dutch water authority4
Unpredictable cocktails or recurring recipes? Identifying the patterns that shape collaborative performance summits4
Does performance-based accountability impact how non-profit directors perceive organizational performance? Insights from rational planning4
A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation4
Artificial intelligence, types of decisions, and street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a survey experiment4
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