OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Administration & Society is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	53
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	31
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	28
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	28
Democracy at Risk: The Public Employee Freedom of Speech Crisis	27
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	26
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	24
What if Action Defined Leadership?	23
The Importance of Similarity: How Gender Congruence Matters for the Impact of Leadership Training	22
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development: Evidence from China	20
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	20
Professional Associations as Networks: How Informal Networking Characterizes Inter-Agency Collaboration from a Social Psychology Perspective	20
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	19
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	19
Prime Minister, Minister, or Something Else? Determinants of Patronage Appointments and Politicization of the Bureaucracy at the Senior Level in Turkey (2002–2018)	18
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	17
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	16
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	16
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	16
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	16
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness	15
Bringing Religion into Public Value Theory and Practice: Rationale and Perspectives	14
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	14
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	14
Ending Faculty Sexual Misconduct in Academia: An Open Letter From Women of Public Affairs Education	13

Promoting Public Compliance through Information Disclosure: Effect of Disclosing Confirmed Cases’ Personal Information on Public Mobility during the COVID-19 Outbreak	13
Some Optimism About Public Governance	12
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	12
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	11
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	11
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	11
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	11
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	10
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	10
Transparency Versus Populism	10
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises: Evidence From China’s Fighting Against COVID-19	10
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education	10
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	10
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	9
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post-Chevron World”	9
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	9
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	9
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	9
Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	9
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	8
Epistemic Governance in the Context of Crisis: A Complexity-informed Approach	8
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	8
The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review	8
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	8
On the Roots of Epistemological Sexism and its Impact on Public Administration Scholarship and Praxis	7
The Political Embeddedness of Voluntary Action: The Case of Local Philanthropic COVID-19 Relief Funds	7
Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing	7
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism	7
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	7
Tackling Persistent, Boundary-Spanning Problems Through Collaborative Innovation: Lessons From the Clean Sweep Initiative in Buffalo, NY	7
Social Identity and Cooperative Behavior by Public Administrators	7
Relationality as a Lens for Policy Analysis: Preserving Harmony in a Triangular Cooperation Project to Strengthen Gender Mainstreaming in Fiji	6
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	6
The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity	6
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	6
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	6
The Sequence of Isomorphism—: The Temporal Diffusion Patterns of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions and Hospitals	5
Professional Development Leadership: Scale Development and Validation	5
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	5
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	5
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	5
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	5
Show Me the Numbers: Bureaucratic Use of Data in the Policy Making Process	5
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	5
Harnessing the Power of Words to Address the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	5
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	5
Community Policing: Misunderstanding and Misapplication Following Police Shootings	5
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	4
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	4

Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	4
You Get What You Pay for: An Analysis of Public Contracts for Engineering Services	4
Exploring Citizen Initiated Contacts and the Role of Local Councilors in Problem Resolution: Evidence From Pakistan	4
Resistor or Meta-Governor? Role Conceptions of Local Elected Representatives in Participatory Trajectories	4
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	4
Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Papers Citing Dunleavy et al.’s (2006) “New Public Management Is Dead—Long Live Digital-Era Governance”: Identifying Research Clusters and Future Research Agendas	4
Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents	4
Learn and Adapt, or Perish: The Case of the F35 Lightning II	4
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	4
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	4
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	4
Opposites But Similar? Technocracy and Populism in Contemporary European Democracies	4
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	4
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	4
New Paths for Public Governance: Literature Review, Content Analysis, and Proposed Conceptual Framework for an Integrative View	3
What’s the Hold Up? The FDA’s Delayed Implementation of Menu-Labeling Policy	3
Competing Public Values Amidst Fiscal Crisis: The Case of State Takeover System in Michigan	3
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	3
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
How Does Paternalistic Leadership Enhance Civil Servants’ Public Service Motivation? The Mediating Mechanism of Trust in Leader	3
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability	3
Assessing Organizational Role and Perceptions of Programmatic Success in Policy Implementation	3
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	3
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure	3
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation: Experimental Evidence From Korean Citizens	3
Orchestrating Sustainability: Government Platforms for Material Circulation	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance	3
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	3
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	3
Accountability Pressure and Intraorganizational Dynamics in Japan’s Public Procurement	2
From Bureaucratic Discipline to Self-Actualization: Using Marx and Foucault to Critique the Demand for Better Work Rather Than Less Work	2
Formal and Informal Accountabilities and Accountability Management: Impact on Work Performance	2
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	2
Response to commentaries: Public Authority: Paradox, Process, and Palindrome	2
Representative Bureaucracy, Age-Friendly Planning, and the Role of Gender, Public Engagement, and Professional Management	2
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	2
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	2
The Case for Gauging as a Research Purpose in Public Administration: Connecting Purpose, Frameworks, Design, and Norms in Applied Research	2
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	2
Divisive Concept Legislation in the Classroom: Assessing Teacher Discretion-as-Perceived	2
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	2
From Access Challenges (as Data) to Methodological Insights: Enhancing Qualitative Inquiries in Public Administration Research	2
Local Autonomy in Temporary Organizations: The Case of Smart City Pilots	2
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	2
Co-creation: A New Pathway for Solving Dysfunctionalities in Governance Systems?	2
The Hierarchical Configurations of Policy Networks: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Urban Transport	2
Adapting Global Administrative Reforms to Local Contexts within Developing Countries: Insights into the Blue Ocean Strategy	2
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	2
Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience	2