OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Performance & 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Human Resources in Nonprofits: An Indicator of Managerial Preparedness or Program Needs?	38
Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Crisis Governance: Insights from COVID-19 Containment in Asia-Pacific	29
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	27
Resource Development and Use in a Nonprofit Collaboration	27
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	26
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	26
The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance	25
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	24
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Revenue Performance? Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	20
Local Civic Engagement in Turbulent Times: Trust in Governance, Managerial Quality, Ethnicity, and Education During Polycrises	19
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	19
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	18
Examining the Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Municipal Fiscal Conditions	17
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	16
Truth and Democratic Accountability: Considerations for the Public Sphere, Public Leadership and Performance Management	16
The Performance of Public–Private Partnerships: An Evaluation of 15 Years DBFM in Dutch Infrastructure Governance	15
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	15
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	15
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	15
Does Contracting Out Serve the Public Value in the Digital Era? Provider Choice of Local Governments in E-Government Service Delivery	15
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	15
Does It Pay to Pay for Success? Stakeholder Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of PFS Feasibility Studies*	14
Which Survey Design Can Serve as an Authentic Citizen Satisfaction Measurement? A Cross-Survey Comparison	14
The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	14

Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units	14
Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View	13
Attribution Framing and Citizens’ Perceptions of Bureaucracies, Bureaucrats and Public Servants	13
Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction	13
Managerial Networking, Community Social Capital, and Performance Improvement in Public Organizations	13
Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health	13
Relationship between Transparency and Efficiency in Municipal Governments: Several Nonparametric Approaches	12
Consequences of Public Sector Employees’ CSR Perceptions in a Developing Country: Organizational Benefits and Beyond	12
The Impact of Fiscal Openness on Public Spending Technical Efficiency in Developing Countries	12
How Policy Instruments Shape Recipients’ Evaluations of Service: The Case of Housing Policy for Military Personnel in Korea	11
Conflict Research in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review	11
Influence of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Behavior in the Korean Public Service Sector: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Change Management and PSM	11
Framing the COVID-19 Crisis: Analyzing State Media Strategies in China Using Deep Learning Models	10
How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience	10
A Clarity Conundrum: Impacts of Recipient Perspectives and Eligibility Language on Perceptions of Safety Net Access for System-Involved Populations	10
Adaptability of Governance Arrangements in Response to COVID-19: Effectiveness of Hierarchy Market or Collaborative?	10
Promoting Public Support For Significant Policy Changes Through Persuasive Messaging: Evidence From China’s COVID-19 Control Policy	10
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes	10
Short-Term Patronage: Job Uncertainty and Temporary Employment in Politicized Bureaucracies	10
Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations	10
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	9
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	9
Is Active Representation of People With Disabilities Possible in Türkiye? A Qualitative Research on Factors Preventing the Active Representation of Disabled Bureaucrats and Solutions	9
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	9
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	9
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	9
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	9
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment	9
The Diffusion of Performance-Based Budgeting Reforms: Cross-Provincial Evidence from China	8
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	8
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	8
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	8
Public Opinion and the Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support	8
Bringing Citizens to the Table: The Impact of Participation Costs on Budget Participation	8
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	8
Beyond tradeoffs: How Do Local Governments Synergize Multiple Complementary Goals?	7
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors	7
The Emotional Backlash of Public Accountability	7
Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas	7
The Impact of Public Service Motivation on Voice Behavior and the Moderating Role of Risk Preference: A Survey Among Grassroots Public Employees in China	7
Mask or No Mask for COVID-19? Do the Individual Characteristics of Governors Affect the Adoption of Statewide Public Mask Mandates?	7
Efficiency or Equity? How Public Values Shape Bureaucrats' Willingness to Use Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Administrative Burdens	7
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	7
Exploring Determinants of Adaptive Capacity: The Nonprofit Sector in the Turbulent COVID-19 Environment in Belarus and Ukraine	7
Predicting technological coproduction: An experimental study	7
The Role of Trust Claims and Public Value Creation in Public Safety Partnerships	7
Understanding the Evolving International Collaborative Governance for Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeast Asia: An Institutional Collective Action Perspective	7
When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector	7
Feeling Good About Doing Good: How the Perceived Authenticity of Organizational Social Responsibility Impacts Affective Organizational Commitment of Local Government Employees	7
Does the Smart City Improve Public Service Delivery? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China	7

Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis	6
Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program	6
Grading Teacher Performance Appraisal Systems: Understanding the Implications of Student Test Scores and Performance Information Use	6
What Gets Measured Gets Managed? The Use of Performance Information across Organizational Echelons in the Public Sector	6
Factors of Proactive Disclosure of Information at the Local Level	6
Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting	6
Scenario-Based Public Values Promotion and Citizens’ Willingness to Engage in Digital Coproduction	6
Does Open Government Data Improve Public Service Quality? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Launch of Open Government Data Platforms in China	6
Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services	6
Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests	6
Institutional arrangements of government and municipal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
When Value is Created but There is No Record: An Eyewitness Account of Public Value Creation in a Student Resource Officer Program	6
A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation	6
The Political Calculus of Chief Executive Officers: The Influence of External and Internal Political Pressures on Turnover and Vacancy	6
Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19	6
Crisis Management and National Responses to COVID-19: Global Perspectives	6
The Third Path to Bridging the Enforcement Gap: Leveraging Social Networks as Instruments for Shaping Central-Local Dynamics	5
How Good County Governance Affects Citizen Volunteering: A Government-Citizen Exchange Model	5
Determinants of Gender Budgeting Practices: Evidence from Municipal Governments in South Korea	5
Is Co-production a Silver Bullet? Examining the Effect of Co-production on Organizational Performance	5
Dynamics of Interagency Networks under Stress in Public Health Emergencies: Evidence from China	5
Resilience Through Collaboration? Emerging Tensions and Paradoxes in Crisis Management	5
Accountability and AI: Redundancy, Overlaps and Blind-Spots	5
Understanding the Role of Legitimacy During Strategic Change in Public Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda	5
Policymaking during COVID-19: Preemptive State Interventions and the Factors Influencing Policy Implementation Success	5
Antecedents of Shared Leadership in the Public Sector: A Social Network Approach	5
Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea	5
Future Challenges of Public Administration	5
The Determinants of Tax-Based Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of State Governments	5
Introduction to Special Issue on Generative AI and Public Administration: Performance, Accountability, and Democratic Governance	5
Reform Stress in the Public Sector? Linking Change Diversity to Turnover Intentions and Presenteeism Among Civil Servants Using a Matching Approach	5
Accountability and the Quality of Regulatory Judgment Processes. Experimental Research Offering Both Confirmation and Consolation	5
Breaking the Chains of Red Tape: Social Media’s Strategic Role in Fostering Innovation	4
Public Participation in Policy Making: Evidence from a Citizen Advisory Panel	4
Balancing Managerialism and Autonomy: A Panel Study of the Link Between Managerial Autonomy, Performance Goals, and Organizational Performance	4
Correction	4
The Effect of Performance Information on Actual Budgeting Allocation: The Role of Policy Type	4
Is Auditing Worth the Effort? The Impact of Internal Auditing on Local Fiscal Outcomes	4
The Influences of Ambidexterity, New Public Management and Innovation on the Public Service Quality of Government Organizations	4
Perception–Behavior Mismatch under Position-Based Selective Incentives: Cross-Level Effects of Organizational Performance Incentives in the Public Sector	4
Public Managers’ Performance Leadership at the Top:Reclaiming Impact and New Research Directions	4
Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy	4
Strategy Formulation Process and Interorganizational Collaboration	4
How Does Policy Implementation Affect the Sustainability of Public–Private Partnership Projects? A Stakeholder-Based Framework	4
How Institutional Pressures Influence the Blame Avoidance Behavior of Civil Servants in China	4
Choice, Continuity, and Competence: A Longitudinal and Multilevel Study of Satisfaction with General Practitioner Service Supply	4
Exploring Board Behavior in a Public Context: Experiences from a Swedish Municipal Corporation	4
Rule Formalization, Bureaucratic Red Tape, and Prosocial Rule Breaking Among Street-Level Bureaucrats: A Citizen-Centered Perspective	4
Leadership Mobility and Target Adaptation: Does Previous Target Achievement Matter?	4
How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation	4
The Legitimizing Role of Outsider Board Members: The Case of the U.S. Nonprofit Health Care Sector	4
Meta-Analyzing the Trust-Performance Link in Collaboration: Moderating Effects of Conceptual and Contextual Factors	4
Promises and Challenges of Racial Equity Budgeting from the Perspective of Generally Accepted Performance Principles (GAPP)	4
Introduction	4
New Public Management in the Era of Cutback: Research Performance with Declining Financial Incentives	4
Do Public Health Service Characteristics Matter? Exploring the Make-or-Buy Decision in Local Health Departments	4
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	4
Effects of Social Influence on Relationships among Citizens’ Expectation Confirmation, Satisfaction and Acceptance under Different Urban Renewal Compensation Modes	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