OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Public Management Journal is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	23
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	20
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	20
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	18
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	17
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	16
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	16
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	15
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	15
Public value and the digital economy	15
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	14
Correction	13
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	13
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	12
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	11
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	11
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	11
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	11
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	10
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	10
Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement	10
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	9
Stakeholder engagement-as-practice in public sector innovation	8

Deviating from the course: How presentational strategies and leadership investments affect leader credibility and collaborative engagement	8
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	8
Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	7
Understanding the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the “central government-local government-society” framework: a case study on public crisis management during the pandemic in China	7
The Curious Public Administrator	7
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	7
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	7
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	7
The climatization of global politics	6
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	6
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	6
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	6
Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management Concept, Theories and Case Studies	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	6
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Letter from the editors	6
Connecting the dots between performance management and red tape perceptions	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	5
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	5
Blame dynamics across the organizational hierarchy and sectors: How a staffing shortage and ownership shape blame for nursing homes in crisis	5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management A Primer	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: An audit study of access to nursing homes	5
Letter from the editor	5
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	5
How knowledge sharing shapes the performance of U.S. federal agencies: The importance of agency task characteristics	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	4
Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank	4
Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources: evidence from a public healthcare setting	4
Through the mist: how institution-knowledge bricoleurs make sense of a crisis	4
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	4
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	4
Co-production during crises: A strategy to mitigate crisis-induced conflicts in public service provision	4
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	3
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
Organizational capabilities and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian municipal governments	3
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	3
Outsourcing safety regulation and public blame attribution for regulatory failures: Evidence from survey experiments	3
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	3
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	3
A decade of subnational gender budgeting and its effects in India: A difference-in-differences analysis	3
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
How generative artificial intelligence shapes citizens’ perceptions of public value: An experimental study	2

Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	2
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	2
Letter from the editor	2
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	2
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	2
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	2
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	2
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	2
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	1
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	1
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	1
When is “time’s up”? The influence of severity and costs/benefits on perceptions of whistleblowing	1
Red tape: Redefinition and reconceptualization based on production theory	1
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	1
Why modify or terminate contracts for critical supplies? Evaluating federal purchasing of PPE following COVID-19	1
A complexity theory perspective on politico-administrative systems: Insights from a systematic literature review	1
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	1
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	1
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	1
Do e-government initiatives and e-participation affect the level of budget transparency?	1
Tell me how you really feel: Unpacking sub-dimensions of citizen satisfaction with hospital services	1
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	1
Mapping response during the wartime: A network study of the humanitarian crisis efforts in Ukraine	1
The role of exogenous macro shocks in shaping the appeal of government employment	1
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	1
Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment	1
Intersectional identities in administrative encounters: empirical evidence from traffic policing	1
Revisiting the importance of representation and glass cliffs in predicting the selection of women to lead public sector organizations	1
Realizing public values in the co-production of public services: the effect of efficacy and trust on coping with public values conflicts	1