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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gendered cooperation in a post-NPM era: a comparative study of the perceptions of municipal technostructure experts and middle-line managers184
Collaborators, supplementers, purchasers and privatizers - profiling the social and health care delivery forms of finnish municipalities through cluster analysis129
Turning rejection into adoption: enhancing the uptake of externally developed design proposals through boundary spanning74
Message-sidedness in performance information disclosure and citizens’ perceived accountability: an experimental study59
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S Acute Care Hospitals56
A representative-represented matrix: exploring the symbolic effect of minority representation56
Making choices in addressing sustainability problems: A link to framing effects and protected values52
Noise at the street level: revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety47
Empowering justice: female police officers’ perspectives on advocating for female victims in South Korea47
Frames of cooperation: interactional dynamics of pandemic governance networks45
Bridging trust through institution and process: how does digital government increase citizens’ trust in local government?45
Public value as care within and for practices41
With or without you: does local autonomy increase intergovernmental collaboration?41
Citizen perceptions of public school efficiency: evidence from the U.S.40
The bureaucratic reputation scale: cross-country and cross-language validation39
Management reforms, re-stratification and the adaptation of professional status hierarchies: The case of medicine in publicly owned hospitals39
Do networks get emotional? The role of leaders’ emotions for (network) success38
Dialogic and agonistic possibilities and limits of visual accounting: an action research of carbon emission reporting in Scottish city council38
Empowering leadership in crisis: a natural experiment36
Goal-attainment in collaborative climate governance: the role of agile leadership practices in spurring collaborative outputs35
Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation31
Break my stride? The impact of collaboration entrants on community-level performance for economic development31
Beyond problemistic search: a contingency perspective on organizational response to performance feedback30
Operational transparency and satisfaction with public services30
Explore and integrate: how digital innovation units enable local government digital transformation29
The interactive effects of professionalism and politicization: why professional standards and political control mix like oil and water29
Transparency and citizen satisfaction: a meta-analysis and future research agenda28
What makes co-production sustainable? A comparative case study of three self-managed homeless programs28
The effects of artificial intelligence and victims’ deservingness information on citizens’ blame attribution towards administrative errors27
Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms27
One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation27
Navigating challenges at the frontline: evidence from Youth Outreach Unit (YOU) in marginalized communities26
Assuming accountability in the absence of control: the role of stewardship management26
Paths to citizens-controlled coproduction: The use of blockchain technology in digital coproduction26
The impact of virtual reality on private value dimensions: a healthcare case study25
Exploring the diversity and spread of adult social care innovations in England: an exercise in mapping innovations and a research agenda24
Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services24
The paradox of co-production: how austerity and structural scarcity reshape street-level discretion and public value in Scotland’s disability support system24
Collaboration in action: How micro-level relational dynamics are connected with issue frame convergence in collaborative governance networks23
Correction23
Who are leading? A survey of organizational context explaining leadership behaviour of managers and non-managerial employees in public organizations23
Capitalization of social service nonprofit activities: homeless service provider openings and home values23
Shaping watershed collaboration: how government attention transforms informal interaction into formal cooperation23
Psychological Contract Fulfillment in a Changing Public Sector: a Mixed-Methods Case-Study22
Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector22
Improving non-executive directors’ judgement quality through information provision: a mixed-method study22
Visualizing & strategizing public value: an unexpected path to invisibilizing21
Fostering value facilitation through situated learning in communities of practice21
Strategizing public value21
Unpacking street-level discretion: a systematic review of its conceptualizations, antecedents and consequences21
Pathways to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Role of Organizational Learning in Enhancing Racial Minority Leadership21
Design strategies for Citizen Strategic Orientation21
When extreme work becomes the norm: an exploration of coping strategies of public sector nurses20
User-orientation in public service organizations: making use of value as a thick concept20
Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations20
Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims: evidence using longitudinal data from the European Commission20
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context20
Fraught with tension? A machine-learning approach to termination traits of public corporations in English and German local governments20
Crossing boundaries at the frontline: examining the link between red tape, leadership and boundary-spanning behaviour20
An empirical conceptualization of front line enablement by performance management19
The impact of accountability systems on public employee well-being and the moderating effects of role clarity and job autonomy19
Framework for cross-border governance: from cross-border critical factors to sustainable development19
Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice18
Does only performance feedback matter in public organizations? Testing the moderating role of directional managerial networking on performance improvement18
Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic: an integrated conceptual framework18
Institutional logic relationships and sustainable change in healthcare: a systematic review of the literature18
Digital surveillance governance: understanding developments in the use of personal data in public sector reform18
Conflicts over public value within public service ecosystems: a strategic action field approach18
Exploring the roles of non-profit organizations in co-production: a systematic literature review18
Broader and more intensive sustainable public procurement: a legitimacy theory perspective18
Navigating the ‘meaningless’ of social innovation: perspectives of social care practitioners in Scotland18
Framing quality (management systems): private providers and the promotion of self-serving evaluations in Swedish eldercare17
Improvements in employee performance management over time: evidence from U.S. federal agencies17
Beyond the birdcage: building trust in different regulatory contexts17
Citizens’ experiences with a public ombud: applying Beck Jørgensen and Bozeman’s public values model to empirical data17
Boundary spanning for contractual fairness in public infrastructure projects: its impact on performance and innovation17
The relational edge: arbitrage as a key capability in platform organizations17
How punishment avoidance motivation inhibits prohibitive voice behaviour: the role of blame risk and occupational reputation17
Framing AI in public innovation: the engagement-manipulation nexus16
Complexity, errors, and administrative burdens16
How does the usage of artificial intelligence affect felt administrative accountability of street-level bureaucrats? The mediating effect of perceived discretion16
Blending the two communities: concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes16
Give and take: understanding innovative behaviour from a psychological contract perspective16
Environmental antecedents, innovation experience, and officials’ innovation willingness: evidence from China16
Performance system design factors that encourage information use: a survey experiment of decision-making by school principals16
Fit or commitment? A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship and mediating mechanisms between public service motivation and turnover intention16
In transparent government we trust: open government data, transparency perception, and public trust in China16
Key drivers and barriers to senior public managers’ engagement in digital service innovative behaviour: a qualitative study15
Conceptualizing the elements of value in public services: insights from practitioners15
Challenges and opportunities for equity in public management: Digital applications in multicultural Smart cities15
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
Improvisational theatre as a viable path? Exploring interaction antecedents in public service innovation processes attempting to implement and sustain eHealth solutions15
Managing noise through nudges: a mixed methods study on decision-hygiene in public management15
Performing change: the institutional logics of internal restructuring in the public sector14
When rationality and pragmatism combine into robust models. The case of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Lombardy14
Designing inclusive co-creation: a conjoint analysis of citizen preferences14
The impact of public agency representation on citizen perception in the face of technological discrimination14
Antecedents of emergency services’ Street Level Bureaucrats’ (SLBs) delivery of public value: an exploratory study14
Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: evidence from a conjoint experiment14
Hidden AI innovations in the public sector: the role of political constraints, bureaucracy, and legitimacy in the adoption of AI-based personnel selection14
Driving nonprofit hospitals to address health equity in community14
Engaging experts by experience as co-producers: challenges and strategies14
Repairing public trust through communication in health crises: a systematic review of the literature14
Does bureaucracy demotivate public servants? An assessment of psychological mechanisms and the moderating role of age14
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships: evidence from four municipalities of China14
Middle managers matter! Unpacking the deployment and adaptation of organization-level dynamic capabilities14
Frontline organizations as experimental settings for policy change: why public management matters even more14
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program13
Ongoing strategizing in practice: Examining CEO activities and a social enterprise’s pathways to growth and greater effectiveness13
Public values? A systematic literature review into the outcomes of public service co-creation13
Individual, organizational, and institutional accountability: a systematic literature review in public administration13
Digital innovation across the publicness spectrum13
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations13
Digital transformations in public welfare services: risks and benefits of digital co-production13
Citizens engaging in public service provision: value co-creation or hard work?13
Understanding interlocal collaboration for service delivery for migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Guangdong, China13
Citizen expectations, agency reputation and public service quality13
Sustaining collective performance data use in collaborations: a case study of the Citizen Security Plan in Jamaica13
Performance feedback and policy diffusion: evidence from Chinese city governments subsidizing new energy vehicles13
From the inside looking out: towards an ecosystem paradigm of third sector organizational performance measurement13
Leading in a time of turmoil: Political fragmentation, political conflict, and managerial turnover12
The rise and fall of an NPM-style reform in China: a longitudinal case study of sanitation service delivery in Guangzhou12
Coping with occupational stereotypes: an emotional lens on police officers’ experiences12
Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates12
Negativity trumps source: exploring the perceptions of AI-advice among public officials12
Idiosyncrasies of public value: how individual characteristics influence citizen perceptions of public value12
Two decades of public sector innovation: building an analytical framework from a systematic literature review of types, strategies, conditions, and results12
Does E-filing improve nonprofit reporting timeliness? evidence from IRS Form 990 data12
Receiving and engaging: can a simple ICT delivered government message change citizen health behavior? A field experiment12
Social enterprise as political work: perspectives from the global south12
The impact of timebanking on volunteering behaviors12
Does (professional) leadership matter for staff satisfaction? Evidence from a panel study of hospital boards12
Procurement under pressure: shifting governance strategies in turbulent times12
Performance management in collaborations: exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use12
Heart over profit: unravelling the discourse on the non-profit sector’s added value12
Buffer and booster? Testing PSM’s role in job demands-resources theory12
Innovation from the margins: policy entrepreneurship and public sector innovation in centralized contexts12
Legitimacy building in crisis: how citizen-led mutual aid self-organizations emerged and survived during Shanghai’s COVID-19 Outbreak11
Failing accountability: exploring the effect of coproduction on public blame attribution after service failures11
Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement11
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions11
Politics and personalities: the 1986 Commonwealth Games as strategic action field11
Escalation of commitment in the public sector: the impacts of electoral effects and visualization aids on blame avoiding behavior11
Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review11
Libraries in a changing society: resourcing value propositions for viability and societal relevance11
Serving the public or checking boxes? Exploring motivations for overcompliance in policy implementation11
Variance risk, downside risk, and tail risk: comparing risk behaviours among public and private sector employees11
Bridging politics and projects: how political affinity and government support affect delays in public–private partnership initiation11
Bureaucrat or artificial intelligence: people’s preferences and perceptions of government service11
Social equity for wicked problems: achieving racial equity in homeless service provision10
Bureaucratic encounter, voice behaviour and citizen satisfaction10
Trust in nursing home services within weak regulatory regimes: the role of information, control and participation10
Ready, set, crisis – transitioning to crisis mode in local public administration10
Sustainability transformation calls for complexity-informed systemic policy design10
Do third parties matter for citizens’ public programme participation? Evidence from an administrative burden perspective10
Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model10
Two sides of the same coin: how does civil servants’ public service motivation affect work-family conflict?10
Can the experience in COVID-19 prevention and control improve the emergency response capacity of local civil servants in China?9
The promise and performance of social impact bonds9
Exploring how individual and shared accountability shape risk management approaches in public service delivery9
Design for inclusive digital co-production9
The politics of fiscal constraints: stakeholder influence in the budget process9
Impact of relational and moral motives on social innovation: the mediating role of value co-creation9
Be prepared! Local politicians’ proclivity for local government adaptive capacity building in response to COVID-19: the role of risk perceptions9
Role perceptions, collaboration and performance: insights from identity theory9
Can information frames nudge citizens to co-produce in emergency preparedness? —evidence from a survey experiment9
Organizing a sport mega-event in a poor and earthquaked country: the case of Chile´s 1962 world cup9
Public service motivation and policy implementation attitudes: survey experimental evidence from Street-level Bureaucrats in China9
Experiments in public administration research: contributions, challenges, and the road ahead9
How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance: the case of La Vuelta Holanda9
Third time’s the charm: revisiting the customer in public service logic9
Relationships matter: how workplace social capital affects absenteeism of public sector employees9
Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials9
The role of employee empowerment in promoting perceived behavioural control over whistleblowing: implications for public organizations9
Social enterprises in the shadow of the State9
Forced online-level bureaucrats during the pandemic. Analysing the telework experience of social service workers8
Designing response networks in turbulent times: necessary and sufficient conditions8
How does ethics reform in government affect moral reasoning and perceived discretion in patronage-prone organizations?8
Correction8
Self-organizing work in practice: the case of community-based flooding initiatives in Scotland8
Love thy neighbour? Management team environment and effective leadership behaviour in public organizations8
The impact of telework on the satisfaction of U.S. federal workers8
Government crisis messaging on social media, citizen online engagement and compliance with policies8
Job sector or PSM? Examining the relative effects of sector and public service motivation on prosocial behaviour8
Shifting oversight: the evolution of modern police performance management in England and Wales8
Using Twitter to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of United States governors8
Agency orientation and bureaucratic behaviour towards clients: evidence from a survey experiment among unemployment caseworkers8
Avoiding bureaucratese: the impact of bureaucratic language in digital public encounters8
Practicing knowledge-agency in highly vulnerable communities: the frontlines of Governance in delivering Brazilian Human services8
Interlocal collaborative processes and network position: the combined effects on environmental performance8
Exploring tensions between appropriateness and consequences in digitally-induced change: empirical evidence from a public museum8
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance: a mapping of clashes and compromises8
Encourage or impede? The relationship between trust in government and coproduction8
Unlocking the process of collaborative innovation - Combining mechanisms of divergence and convergence8
When you make and buy: understanding service delivery portfolios in concurrent sourcing8
Unveiling how power manifests in street-level interactions: implications for value co-creation7
Staff (mis)allocation in public agencies: evidence from protected area management in Brazil7
Understanding stringency of performance systems: the case of performance-based funding in U.S. higher education7
Flying with clipped wings: dynamic capabilities of publicly owned health care providers7
Public service management reform: an institutional work and collective framing approach7
Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material7
Who “We” are matters: the influence of organizational identity orientation on public participation in government7
Supervisory autonomy support: does it strengthen the PSM—Employee engagement relationship?7
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits: moving from words to action7
Institutional complexity of public sector reform: conflicts and dynamics in local–regional cooperation7
Citizen coproduction motivations: a systematic review and the SPIENM framework7
My workgroup or my desire to serve the society? The influence of workgroup identification and public service motivation on whistleblowing intentions7
How is empathy used in public service? A systematic literature review7
Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives7
Assumptions about behaviour influence the policy preferences of public officials7
Exploring the dysfunctional consequences of performance evaluation systems: how does ‘evaluation overload’ affect organizational performance?7
Mitigating collaborative inertia: how leadership transfer networks improve the low-carbon governance of local governments7
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks: an experimental study7
Effect of knowledge search depth, user co-creation and moderating factors on the outcomes of service innovations by European public sector organizations7
Sector switchers, what drives you? Exploring career shifts from private to public sector7
Influence of public innovation laboratories on the development of public sector ambidexterity7
The influence of new public management on the police first-line manager: exploring the challenges faced by practitioner managers6
The role of resource allocation for regime performance in networks for local integration policies6
Police leadership at the political interface: A systematic literature review6
Public officials’ motivated reasoning and their interpretation of policy information6
When autonomy backfires or succeeds: curvilinear effects on innovative behaviour in the public sector and the moderating role of transformational leadership6
Network governance of collaborative innovation: a bipartite network perspective6
Collaborative governance in strong state settings: perceived voluntariness and the role of the state in Rural China6
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses6
Organizing for co-production: the role of leadership cultures6
How does citizen-centric co-production lead to value co-creation? A perspective of interactive governance6
Unleashing the potential of participative budgeting practices in Public Healthcare Organizations: The drivers of psychology-based budgeting research6
A review of open strategy: bridging strategy and public management research6
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia6
Learning from public administration faculty: emotional labour, burnout, and solutions6
Insights into public management from policing: introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review6
An empirical analysis of digital strategies and behaviours in Korea’s public sector think tanks: an institutional organizational theory perspective6
Institutional environment and passive co-production: exploring the roles of government deterrence and social norms6
Co-creation in commissioning complex public services: towards an adaptive system for continuous improvement6
Accountability in outsourced public service delivery: an Australian study6
Does merging mandated collaborative governance networks improve community-based community outputs?6
New public management in U.S. higher education: is privatization associated with lower costs?6
Digitally-induced change in the public sector: a systematic review and research agenda5
Expectations versus reality: the sustainability of co-production approaches over time5
Interagency collaboration, broker organization, and bureaucratic responsiveness: how public agencies fix complex citizen requests on digital government platforms?5
Private organization’s moral behaviour and citizen support for public-private partnerships: evidence from a survey experiment5
When the time is right: testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance5
Orchestrating public reforms through joint organizations: the case of a new remuneration policy in Belgian healthcare5
Realizing NetZero in social housing: strategic public procurement and internal stakeholder engagement5
Beyond reporting: What drives performance data use in sustainability management? Empirical evidence from U.S. cities5
HRM autonomy, integration and performance in government agencies: tests of necessity and sufficiency5
When ecosystem design shapes strategizing: exploring public value creation in Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games5
Public service resilience post-Covid: Introduction to the special issue5
Social impact bond- ing ? Evidence on interorganizational relationships in social impact bonds across the United Kingdom5
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