OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Performance & Management Review is 6. 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
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	19
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
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
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	13
Does Prosocial Impact Reduce Performance Data Gaming? The Role of Data Visualizations and Expert-Novice Differences	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
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
Personality Traits’ Predictors of Outstanding Performance in the Public Sector	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
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
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
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
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