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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems	189
Following the yellow brick road? (Dis)enchantment with co-design, co-production and value co-creation in public services	99
From government to governance…to meta-governance: a systematic literature review	54
Continuing the development of the public service logic: a study of value co-destruction in public services	51
Public service innovation: a typology	45
Implementing collaborative governance: models, experiences, and challenges	42
Creating business models for smart cities: a practical framework	41
A human resource management review on public management and public administration research: stop right there…before we go any further…	40
Innovation labs and co-production in public problem solving	39
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 e	39
A public management perspective on smart cities: ‘Urban auditing’ for management, governance and accountability	38
Leadership in, of, and for smart cities – case studies from Europe, America, and Australia	37
Examining the institutional drivers of public-private partnership (PPP) market performance: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)	36
The effects of organizational and demographic context for innovation implementation in public organizations	35
Design for experience – a public service design approach in the age of digitalization	34
Open innovation in the public sector: creating public value through civic hackathons	33
Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19	33
Social entrepreneurship in the context of disaster recovery: Organizing for public value creation	30
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats	29
Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation in US local government services: balancing fiscal stress, need and political interests	29
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance?	28
Towards understanding workplace incivility: gender, ethical leadership and personal control	28
Public service motivation and prosocial motivation: two sides of the same coin?	28
Twenty years of Public Management Review (PMR): a bibliometric overview	27
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 performa	27

Crowding-in or crowding-out: the contribution of self-determination theory to public service motivation	26
South Korea’s fast response to coronavirus disease: implications on public policy and public management theory	25
Towards a servitization of innovation networks: a mapping	25
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation	24
Policy narratives and megaprojects: the case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway	24
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study	23
The right kind of participation? The effect of a deliberative mini-public on the perceived legitimacy of public decision-making	23
The institutionalization of public sector innovation	23
Team innovation through collaboration: how visionary leadership spurs innovation via team cohesion	22
Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
A validated measurement for felt relational accountability in the public sector: gauging the account holder’s legitimacy and expertise	21
Innovative outcomes in public-private innovation partnerships: a systematic review of empirical evidence and current challenges	21
Conflicts fostering understanding of value co-creation and service systems transformation in complex public service systems	21
Explaining the adoption rate of public-private partnerships in Chinese provinces: a transaction cost perspective	21
Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China	20
Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems	20
Representative bureaucracy and hierarchy: interactions among leadership, middle-level, and street-level bureaucracy	19
The impact of accountability deficit on agency performance: performance-accountability regime	19
Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?	19
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements	19
A contextual explanation of regional governance in Europe: insights from inter-municipal cooperation	19
Self-determination theory goes public: experimental evidence on the causal relationship between psychological needs and job satisfaction	18
Combined effects of procurement and collaboration on innovation in public-private-partnerships: a qualitative comparative analysis of 24 infrastructure projects	18
Employee engagement among public employees: examining the role of organizational images	18
Who governs 4.0? Varieties of smart cities	17
Is the turtle still plodding along? Public management reform in Germany	17
An international exploration of barriers and tactics in the public sector innovation process	17
Human resource devolution, decoupling and incoherence: how line managers manage gender equality reforms	16
Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?	16
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce	16
Public managers’ leadership identity: concept, causes, and consequences	16
How does organizational sustainability foster public service motivation and job satisfaction? The mediating role of organizational support and societal impact potential	16
Work intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and ‘everyday’ experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service	16
Gender and performance in public organizations: a research synthesis and research agenda	16
Collaborative innovation and human-machine networks	16
The limited transformational power of adaptive governance: a study of institutionalization and materialization of adaptive governance	15
Disentangling altruism and public service motivation: who exhibits organizational citizenship behaviour?	15
Planning Cities4People–A body and soul analysis of urban neighbourhoods	15
Public service motivation matters: examining the differential effects of challenge and hindrance stressors on organizational identification and turnover intention	15
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India	15
Neighbourhood governance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hangzhou: coproduction based on digital technologies	14
Changing role of HRM in the public sector	14
Drivers of trust in emergency organizations networks: the role of readiness, threat perceptions and participation in decision making	14
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review	14
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden	14
Lack of reform in Israeli local government and its impact on modern developments in public management	14
Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations	14
Leadership and innovation: what’s the story? The relationship between leadership support level and innovation target	13
Continuous co-creation: how ongoing involvement impacts outcomes of co-creation	13
Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	13

Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?	13
Public service motivation and government officials’ willingness to learn in public sector benchmarking process	13
Intra-organizational trust in public organizations – the study of interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective	13
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-19	13
E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure	12
The adoption of e-Health in public hospitals. Unfolding the gender dimension of TMT and line managers	12
Strategizing on behalf of social enterprises: the case of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association and Catalyst	12
What drives network effectiveness? A configurational approach	12
Activating job crafting in public services: the roles of discretionary human resource practices and employee use of normative public values	12
Organizational identity threats and aspirations in reputation management	12
Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership	12
What motivates politicians to use strategic plans as a decision-making tool? Insights from the theory of planned behaviour	12
The role of hybrid professionals in the public sector: a review and research synthesis	12
Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda	11
Cross-sector collaboration formality: the effects of institutions and organizational leaders	11
Barriers to entrepreneurship in public enterprises: boards contributing to inertia	11
Setting sail in a storm: leadership in times of cutbacks	11
Facilitating collaboration in publicly mandated governance networks	11
‘I don’t think they trust the choices I will make.’ – Narrative analysis of choice and control for people with psychosocial disability within reform of the Australian Disability Employment Services pr	11
Design in the public sector: Toward a human centred model of public governance	11
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation	11
Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China	11
Performance information and learning effects on citizen satisfaction with public services	11
Co-production as a driver of client satisfaction with public service organizations: an analysis of German day-care centres	11
Motivated to act and take responsibility – integrating insights from community psychology in PSM research	10
Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies	10
How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats: transformational leadership, organizational learning, and professionalization strategies in the delivery of social assistance	10
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis	10
Quality standards, implementation autonomy, and citizen satisfaction with public services: cross-national evidence	10
Aligning accountability arrangements for ambiguous goals: the case of museums	10
A view into managers’ subjective experiences of public service motivation and work engagement: a qualitative study	10
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards	10
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness	10
Governing collaborations: how boards engage with their communities in multi-academy trusts in England	9
Value-based innovations in a Norwegian hospital: from conceptualization to implementation	9
Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise	9
In search for inclusiveness: vertical complexity in public-nonprofit networks	9
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective	9
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state	9
Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style	9
Beyond the tipping point: the curvilinear relationships of transformational leadership, leader–member exchange, and emotional exhaustion in the French police	9
Does digitizing involve desensitizing? Strategic insights into the side effects of workplace digitization	9
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city	9
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective	9
Employing complexity: complexification management for locked issues	9
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany	9
Giving sense about paradoxes: paradoxical leadership in the public sector	9
Leadership behaviours in local government networks: an empirical replication study	9
Does non-profit commercialization help reduce social inequality? Revisiting the cross-subsidization hypothesis	9
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature	9
How physicians cope with extreme overwork: an exploratory study of French public-sector healthcare professionals	9
Becoming smart? Pursuit of sustainability in urban policy design	9