OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Management Review is 9. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems	273
Implementing collaborative governance: models, experiences, and challenges	75
Design for experience – a public service design approach in the age of digitalization	57
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study	56
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation	51
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements	50
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats	46
Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19	42
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance?	40
Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems	39
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce	38
Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?	35
Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-19	34
Self-determination theory goes public: experimental evidence on the causal relationship between psychological needs and job satisfaction	31
Policy narratives and megaprojects: the case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway	31
Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China	29
How does organizational sustainability foster public service motivation and job satisfaction? The mediating role of organizational support and societal impact potential	29
Facilitating collaboration in publicly mandated governance networks	27
Neighbourhood governance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hangzhou: coproduction based on digital technologies	26
Combined effects of procurement and collaboration on innovation in public-private-partnerships: a qualitative comparative analysis of 24 infrastructure projects	26
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India	25
Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities	24
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state	23

Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda	23
Lack of reform in Israeli local government and its impact on modern developments in public management	23
Local government as a catalyst for promoting social enterprise	22
Giving sense about paradoxes: paradoxical leadership in the public sector	22
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?	21
Leadership and innovation: what’s the story? The relationship between leadership support level and innovation target	21
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review	21
E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure	21
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?	20
Design in the public sector: Toward a human centred model of public governance	20
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city	19
How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats: transformational leadership, organizational learning, and professionalization strategies in the delivery of social assistance	19
Cross-sector collaboration formality: the effects of institutions and organizational leaders	19
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective	18
Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China	18
Performance information and learning effects on citizen satisfaction with public services	18
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context	17
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England	17
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany	17
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis	17
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness	17
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden	16
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective	16
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review	16
Strategizing on behalf of social enterprises: the case of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association and Catalyst	16
Does digitizing involve desensitizing? Strategic insights into the side effects of workplace digitization	16
Barriers to entrepreneurship in public enterprises: boards contributing to inertia	16
Having it all: can collaborative governance be both legitimate and accountable?	15
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services	15
Beyond the tipping point: the curvilinear relationships of transformational leadership, leader–member exchange, and emotional exhaustion in the French police	15
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample	15
Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style	15
Determinants of open innovation adoption in public organizations: a systematic review	15
Public sector innovation in context: A comparative study of innovation types	15
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations	14
Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies	14
When the going gets tough, the goal-committed get going: overcoming the transaction costs of inter-agency collaborative governance	14
Implementing AI in the public sector	14
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts	14
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards	14
Collaborative networks and environmental governance performance: a social influence model	13
Boundary-spanning in public value co-creation through the lens of multilevel governance	13
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance	13
Mutuality in AI-enabled new public service solutions	13
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework	13
After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19	13
Budget transparency and governance quality: a cross-country analysis	13
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: a survey experiment in China	13
Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise	13
Business model innovation in the public sector: an integrative framework	13

Internal brand management in the public sector: the effects of internal communication, organizational practices, and PSM on employees’ brand perceptions	13
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study	12
Crisis lifecycle, policy response, and policy effectiveness	12
AI as an organizational agent to nurture: effectively introducing chatbots in public entities	12
Public health care innovation lab tackling the barriers of public sector innovation	12
Understanding financial resilience from a resource-based view: Evidence from US state governments	12
Does non-profit commercialization help reduce social inequality? Revisiting the cross-subsidization hypothesis	12
The impact of technological innovation on service delivery: social media and smartphone integration in a 311 system	12
Financial capacity and organizational stability in U.S. local governments	12
Social entrepreneurs as change makers: expanding public service networks for social innovation	12
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature	12
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study	12
Government transparency: paradoxes and dilemmas	11
Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration	11
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation	11
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement: a panel study in Pakistan	11
Perceived racial discrimination in the workplace: considering minority supervisory representation and inter-minority relations	11
Market competition and regulatory compliance in public, non-profit, and for-profit organizations	11
Conceptualizing the elements of value in public services: insights from practitioners	11
The perceived effectiveness of collaborative approaches to address domestic violence: the role of representation, ‘reverse-representation,’ embeddedness, and resources	11
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness: A 30-year assessment and future agenda for public administration	11
Representation, reputation and expectations towards bureaucracy: experimental findings from a favela in Brazil	11
Citizens as an innovation source in sustainability transitions – linking the directionality of innovations with the locus of the problem in transformative innovation policy	11
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship	11
‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: a framework for examining double binds in public service organizations	11
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland	11
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector	10
Mobilizing to take responsibility: exploring the relationship between Sense of Community Responsibility (SOC-R), Public Service Motivation (PSM) and public service resilience during Covid-19	10
Bought in? The contingent effect of stakeholder support upon strategic implementation success in American municipalities	10
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability	10
Can effective organizational rules keep employees from leaving? a study of green tape and turnover intention	10
No two-party game: how third-sector organizations alter administrative burden and improve social equity	10
Strategic planning and performance perceptions of managers and citizens: analysing multiple mediations	10
‘Explain, but make no excuses’: service recovery after public service failures	10
Information sharing in public-private relationships: the role of boundary objects in contracts	10
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes	10
Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China	10
Examining the impact of control and ownership on social enterprises’ public value creation using integrative publicness theory	10
Ethical leadership and program to reduce unethical behaviour among public employees	10
What makes work smart in the public sector? Insights from a bibliometric analysis and interpretive literature review	10
Understanding street‐level bureaucrats’ informal collaboration: Evidence from police officers across the jurisdictional divide	10
Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund	10
What contributes to the sustainability of self-organized non-profit collaboration in disaster relief？A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	10
Performance management from the bottom up	9
Virtual agents in the public service: examining citizens’ value-in-use	9
Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs	9
Nurturing mutual gains in the public sector: the roles of socially responsible human resource practices, employee use of normative public values, and job crafting	9
Public trust and collaborative governance: an instrumental variable approach	9
Hybrid goals: institutional complexity and ‘legacy’ in a global sporting mega-event	9
Local government amalgamations: state of the art and new ways forward	9
Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability	9
Publicness and micro-level risk behaviour: experimental evidence on stereotypical discounting behaviour	9
Death anxiety among street-level bureaucrats: how does it affect their work drive and performance?	9
The differing effects of individual- and group-based pay for performance on employee satisfaction: the role of the perceived fairness of performance evaluations	9
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments	9
Revenue diversification or revenue concentration? Impact on financial health of social enterprises	9
Does gender matter in budget deviations? An empirical assessment of Spanish local governments	9
Partisan bias and citizen satisfaction, confidence, and trust in the U.S. Federal Government	9
Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking	9
Understanding diverse types of performance information use: evidence from an institutional isomorphism perspective	9