OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Administration & Society 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 2021-04-01 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
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
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development: Evidence from China	20
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	19
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	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
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
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	16
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	16
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness	15
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	14
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
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
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	12
Some Optimism About Public Governance	12
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	11
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	6
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