OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Performance & Management Review is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	60
Human Resources in Nonprofits: An Indicator of Managerial Preparedness or Program Needs?	43
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	34
Resource Development and Use in a Nonprofit Collaboration	31
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	22
Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Crisis Governance: Insights from COVID-19 Containment in Asia-Pacific	20
The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance	20
Impact of Ethical Leadership on Job Satisfaction and Work-Related Burnout among Turkish Street-Level Bureaucrats: The Roles of Public Service Motivation, Perceived Organizational Support, and Red Tape	19
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	19
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Revenue Performance? Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	18
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	17
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	14
Does Prosocial Impact Reduce Performance Data Gaming? The Role of Data Visualizations and Expert-Novice Differences	13
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	13
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	12
Accountability at its Finest: Law Enforcement Agencies and Body-Worn Cameras	12
Personality Traits’ Predictors of Outstanding Performance in the Public Sector	11
The Impact of Fiscal Openness on Public Spending Technical Efficiency in Developing Countries	11
The Performance of Public–Private Partnerships: An Evaluation of 15 Years DBFM in Dutch Infrastructure Governance	11
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	11
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	11
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Does It Pay to Pay for Success? Stakeholder Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of PFS Feasibility Studies*	10
Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units	10
Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction	10

The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	10
Which Survey Design Can Serve as an Authentic Citizen Satisfaction Measurement? A Cross-Survey Comparison	10
How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience	9
Influence of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Behavior in the Korean Public Service Sector: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Change Management and PSM	9
Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health	9
Relationship between Transparency and Efficiency in Municipal Governments: Several Nonparametric Approaches	9
Consequences of Public Sector Employees’ CSR Perceptions in a Developing Country: Organizational Benefits and Beyond	9
How Policy Instruments Shape Recipients’ Evaluations of Service: The Case of Housing Policy for Military Personnel in Korea	9
Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View	9
Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations	8
Adaptability of Governance Arrangements in Response to COVID-19: Effectiveness of Hierarchy Market or Collaborative?	8
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes	8
Short-Term Patronage: Job Uncertainty and Temporary Employment in Politicized Bureaucracies	8
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	7
Is Active Representation of People With Disabilities Possible in Türkiye? A Qualitative Research on Factors Preventing the Active Representation of Disabled Bureaucrats and Solutions	7
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	7
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	7
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment	7
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	7
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	7
Bringing Citizens to the Table: The Impact of Participation Costs on Budget Participation	6
The Diffusion of Performance-Based Budgeting Reforms: Cross-Provincial Evidence from China	6
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	6
Improved Local Implementation under Central Inspection? Evidence from Social Mandates in China	6
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	6
When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector	6
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	6
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	6
Mask or No Mask for COVID-19? Do the Individual Characteristics of Governors Affect the Adoption of Statewide Public Mask Mandates?	6
Efficiency or Equity? How Public Values Shape Bureaucrats' Willingness to Use Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Administrative Burdens	6
Does Fiscal Slack Buffer Against Budgetary Shocks? Exploring the Heterogeneous Impacts of Unabsorbed and Absorbed Slack on Credit Ratings of Municipal Governments in the United States	6
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	6
Ambidexterity in Cross-Sector Collaborations Involving Public Organizations	6
Board Diversity and Monitoring: An Investigation of Gender and Task-Related Diversity	5
Does the Smart City Improve Public Service Delivery? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China	5
Crisis Management and National Responses to COVID-19: Global Perspectives	5
Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis	5
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors	5
Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas	5
Feeling Good About Doing Good: How the Perceived Authenticity of Organizational Social Responsibility Impacts Affective Organizational Commitment of Local Government Employees	5
Exploring Determinants of Adaptive Capacity: The Nonprofit Sector in the Turbulent COVID-19 Environment in Belarus and Ukraine	5
The Emotional Backlash of Public Accountability	5
Predicting technological coproduction: An experimental study	5
Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program	5
Reform Stress in the Public Sector? Linking Change Diversity to Turnover Intentions and Presenteeism Among Civil Servants Using a Matching Approach	4
Effects of Social Influence on Relationships among Citizens’ Expectation Confirmation, Satisfaction and Acceptance under Different Urban Renewal Compensation Modes	4
Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services	4
Dynamics of Interagency Networks under Stress in Public Health Emergencies: Evidence from China	4
Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19	4
Policymaking during COVID-19: Preemptive State Interventions and the Factors Influencing Policy Implementation Success	4

Determinants of Gender Budgeting Practices: Evidence from Municipal Governments in South Korea	4
Accountability and AI: Redundancy, Overlaps and Blind-Spots	4
The Determinants of Tax-Based Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of State Governments	4
Understanding the Role of Legitimacy During Strategic Change in Public Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda	4
Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea	4
A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation	4
Managing the Market-Mission Tension: When Does Commercial Revenue Crowd out Charitable Contributions?	4
Resilience Through Collaboration? Emerging Tensions and Paradoxes in Crisis Management	4
Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests	4
When Value is Created but There is No Record: An Eyewitness Account of Public Value Creation in a Student Resource Officer Program	4
Grading Teacher Performance Appraisal Systems: Understanding the Implications of Student Test Scores and Performance Information Use	4
Can We Mitigate Covid-19 Related Work Strain Among Civil Servants? Examining the Role of Organizational Commitment, Job Autonomy and Workplace Social Support	4
What Gets Measured Gets Managed? The Use of Performance Information across Organizational Echelons in the Public Sector	4
Does School District Board Type Affect Fiscal Conditions? Examining Debt Positions	4
Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting	4
Measuring the Acceptability of Facial Recognition-Enabled Work Surveillance Cameras in the Public and Private Sector	4
Management Capacity, Financial Resources, and Organizational Performance: Evidence from State Transportation Agencies	4
Institutional arrangements of government and municipal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Factors of Proactive Disclosure of Information at the Local Level	4
Strategy Formulation Process and Interorganizational Collaboration	3
The Effect of Performance Information on Actual Budgeting Allocation: The Role of Policy Type	3
Do Public Health Service Characteristics Matter? Exploring the Make-or-Buy Decision in Local Health Departments	3
Exploring Board Behavior in a Public Context: Experiences from a Swedish Municipal Corporation	3
Introduction	3
Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy	3
The Legitimizing Role of Outsider Board Members: The Case of the U.S. Nonprofit Health Care Sector	3
Public Participation in Policy Making: Evidence from a Citizen Advisory Panel	3
How Institutional Pressures Influence the Blame Avoidance Behavior of Civil Servants in China	3
Leadership Mobility and Target Adaptation: Does Previous Target Achievement Matter?	3
Is Auditing Worth the Effort? The Impact of Internal Auditing on Local Fiscal Outcomes	3
Rule Formalization, Bureaucratic Red Tape, and Prosocial Rule Breaking Among Street-Level Bureaucrats: A Citizen-Centered Perspective	3
The Influences of Ambidexterity, New Public Management and Innovation on the Public Service Quality of Government Organizations	3
Balancing Managerialism and Autonomy: A Panel Study of the Link Between Managerial Autonomy, Performance Goals, and Organizational Performance	3
How Does Policy Implementation Affect the Sustainability of Public–Private Partnership Projects? A Stakeholder-Based Framework	3
The Use of Performance Information under Conflict: A Large-N Study	3
Cognition, Collective Action, and COVID-19: Managing Crises in Real Time	3
Choice, Continuity, and Competence: A Longitudinal and Multilevel Study of Satisfaction with General Practitioner Service Supply	3
New Public Management in the Era of Cutback: Research Performance with Declining Financial Incentives	3
Are Highly Public Service–Motivated Individuals Immune to Common Causes of Unethical Behavior? Calibrating the Moderating Role of Group Pressure and Competition for Economic Resources	3
Accountability and the Quality of Regulatory Judgment Processes. Experimental Research Offering Both Confirmation and Consolation	3
Meta-Analyzing the Trust-Performance Link in Collaboration: Moderating Effects of Conceptual and Contextual Factors	3
How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation	3
Psychosocial Safety Climate, Psychological Capital, Healthcare SLBs’ Wellbeing and Innovative Behaviour During the COVID 19 Pandemic	3
Optimal Turnover Rates and Performance in Public Organizations: Theoretical Expectations	3