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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems	251
Implementing collaborative governance: models, experiences, and challenges	66
Design for experience – a public service design approach in the age of digitalization	54
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study	47
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats	41
Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation in US local government services: balancing fiscal stress, need and political interests	39
Social entrepreneurship in the context of disaster recovery: Organizing for public value creation	39
Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19	39
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation	39
Public service motivation and prosocial motivation: two sides of the same coin?	36
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements	36
Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems	36
Crowding-in or crowding-out: the contribution of self-determination theory to public service motivation	35
Team innovation through collaboration: how visionary leadership spurs innovation via team cohesion	35
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance?	34
South Korea’s fast response to coronavirus disease: implications on public policy and public management theory	32
Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?	32
Self-determination theory goes public: experimental evidence on the causal relationship between psychological needs and job satisfaction	29
Under what conditions do governments collaborate? A qualitative comparative analysis of air pollution control in China	29
Policy narratives and megaprojects: the case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway	28
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	28
Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce	27
A validated measurement for felt relational accountability in the public sector: gauging the account holder’s legitimacy and expertise	26

How does organizational sustainability foster public service motivation and job satisfaction? The mediating role of organizational support and societal impact potential	25
Combined effects of procurement and collaboration on innovation in public-private-partnerships: a qualitative comparative analysis of 24 infrastructure projects	24
Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India	24
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-19	22
Public values assessment as a practice: integration of evidence and research agenda	22
Facilitating collaboration in publicly mandated governance networks	21
Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership	21
Representative bureaucracy and hierarchy: interactions among leadership, middle-level, and street-level bureaucracy	21
Continuous co-creation: how ongoing involvement impacts outcomes of co-creation	21
Is the turtle still plodding along? Public management reform in Germany	21
Intra-organizational trust in public organizations – the study of interpersonal trust in both vertical and horizontal relationships from a bidirectional perspective	21
Lack of reform in Israeli local government and its impact on modern developments in public management	20
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state	20
Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?	19
E-procurement system adoption in local governments: the role of procurement complexity and organizational structure	19
Local government as a catalyst for promoting social enterprise	19
Giving sense about paradoxes: paradoxical leadership in the public sector	18
Neighbourhood governance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hangzhou: coproduction based on digital technologies	18
Leadership and innovation: what’s the story? The relationship between leadership support level and innovation target	18
Cross-sector collaboration formality: the effects of institutions and organizational leaders	18
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis	17
How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats: transformational leadership, organizational learning, and professionalization strategies in the delivery of social assistance	17
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?	17
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England	17
Design in the public sector: Toward a human centred model of public governance	17
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review	17
Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities	16
Performance information and learning effects on citizen satisfaction with public services	16
Separating symbolic and active representation: a mixed methods study of gender and education in China	16
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness	16
Contracting out welfare services: how are private contractors held accountable?	16
Activating job crafting in public services: the roles of discretionary human resource practices and employee use of normative public values	16
Does digitizing involve desensitizing? Strategic insights into the side effects of workplace digitization	15
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective	15
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden	15
Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany	15
What drives network effectiveness? A configurational approach	15
Motivated to act and take responsibility – integrating insights from community psychology in PSM research	15
Barriers to entrepreneurship in public enterprises: boards contributing to inertia	14
Having it all: can collaborative governance be both legitimate and accountable?	14
Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies	14
A view into managers’ subjective experiences of public service motivation and work engagement: a qualitative study	14
Strategizing on behalf of social enterprises: the case of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association and Catalyst	14
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city	14
Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise	13
Leading frontline enforcers: how supervisors’ leadership style impacts inspectors’ enforcement style	13
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services	13
Beyond the tipping point: the curvilinear relationships of transformational leadership, leader–member exchange, and emotional exhaustion in the French police	13
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards	13
Budget transparency and governance quality: a cross-country analysis	12

The adoption of e-Health in public hospitals. Unfolding the gender dimension of TMT and line managers	12
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective	12
Contact with citizens and job satisfaction: expanding person-environment models of public service motivation	12
Collaborative networks and environmental governance performance: a social influence model	12
Public health care innovation lab tackling the barriers of public sector innovation	12
Financial capacity and organizational stability in U.S. local governments	12
Mutuality in AI-enabled new public service solutions	12
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature	12
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework	11
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study	11
When the going gets tough, the goal-committed get going: overcoming the transaction costs of inter-agency collaborative governance	11
Social entrepreneurs as change makers: expanding public service networks for social innovation	11
Understanding financial resilience from a resource-based view: Evidence from US state governments	11
Does non-profit commercialization help reduce social inequality? Revisiting the cross-subsidization hypothesis	11
AI as an organizational agent to nurture: effectively introducing chatbots in public entities	11
Business model innovation in the public sector: an integrative framework	11
Crisis lifecycle, policy response, and policy effectiveness	11
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: a survey experiment in China	11
Public sector innovation in context: A comparative study of innovation types	11
After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19	11
Determinants of open innovation adoption in public organizations: a systematic review	11
Internal brand management in the public sector: the effects of internal communication, organizational practices, and PSM on employees’ brand perceptions	11
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector	10
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation	10
Boundary-spanning in public value co-creation through the lens of multilevel governance	10
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability	10
Representation, reputation and expectations towards bureaucracy: experimental findings from a favela in Brazil	10
Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration	10
Illiberal challenges to mainstream public management research: Hungary as an exemplary case	10
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review	10
Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China	10
The impact of technological innovation on service delivery: social media and smartphone integration in a 311 system	10
Examining the impact of control and ownership on social enterprises’ public value creation using integrative publicness theory	10
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts	10
The perceived effectiveness of collaborative approaches to address domestic violence: the role of representation, ‘reverse-representation,’ embeddedness, and resources	10
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes	10
What contributes to the sustainability of self-organized non-profit collaboration in disaster relief？A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	10
Perceived racial discrimination in the workplace: considering minority supervisory representation and inter-minority relations	9
Introduction to the PMR special issue on accountability and legitimacy under collaborative governance	9
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations	9
Public management reform in Brazil (2002-2019)	9
Can effective organizational rules keep employees from leaving? a study of green tape and turnover intention	9
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study	9
What makes work smart in the public sector? Insights from a bibliometric analysis and interpretive literature review	9
What happens when the going gets tough? Linking change scepticism, organizational identification, and turnover intentions	9
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement: a panel study in Pakistan	9
Strategic planning and performance perceptions of managers and citizens: analysing multiple mediations	9
‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: a framework for examining double binds in public service organizations	9
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship	9
Publicness and micro-level risk behaviour: experimental evidence on stereotypical discounting behaviour	9
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness: A 30-year assessment and future agenda for public administration	9