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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sit it out or dance: Representative bureaucracy contagion effects in health care	22
Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda	17
Public sector innovation: Sources, benefits, and leadership	16
Municipal corporations in national and disciplinary contexts: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	16
Institutional pressures, discretion, and bureaucratic responses to clients: An experimental study of school-based law enforcement officers	16
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Strategic management in the public sector - the case of the Swedish transport administration	16
Risk management in public service delivery: multi-dimensional scale development and validation	15
Public value and the digital economy	15
Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation	12
Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation	12
Controversies in employee-driven innovation: Exploring the Danish public healthcare	12
Remunicipalization, corporatization, and outsourcing: the performance of public-sector firms after reorganization	11
Correction	11
Antecedents of employee intrapreneurship in the public sector: a proactive motivation approach	11
The disease of corruption: Missing funds and health conditions in Brazilian municipalities	11
Social impact bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?	11
Race, gender, and rules: How intersectionality and congruence shape leadership perceptions	11
How a manager’s background shapes perceived leader credibility: A survey experiment among teachers and civil servants in The Netherlands	10
Exploring the trickle-down effect of public service motivation from supervisors to their subordinates	9
Through the looking glass: Extending the “satisfaction mirror” in thirty-nine countries	9
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Balancing speed and coordination: Senior leaders’ perspectives on civil service transformation during and after the pandemic	9
Information processing and the transparency–trust link: Political affiliation, values, and information search behaviors in China	9
Factoring in the human factor: experimental evidence on how public managers make sense of performance information	9

Enhancing the functioning of local purpose-oriented networks through citizens’ co-production of services	9
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	8
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	7
The fiscal effects of U.S. State budget stabilization funds (BSFs): evidence from a meta-analysis	7
Deliberative Democracy, Public Policy, and Local Government	7
Room for leadership? A comparison of perceived managerial job autonomy in public, private and hybrid organizations	7
Linking innovation climate to innovative behavior in public organizations: Exploring the role of psychological needs	7
Problem-Solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management	7
Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?	7
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector	6
Value propositions and facilitating promises of value—The case of the Swedish Public Employment Service	6
Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government	6
Benefits, blame, and budgets: Citizen responses to cutback management strategies in public education	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
The Curious Public Administrator	6
Can transparency promote citizen compliance in China? The role of justice and social identification	6
Letter from the editors	6
Popular financial reporting increases understanding, interest, and trust: Experimental evidence	6
The climatization of global politics	6
Effective co-production in local government networks: A story of structure	6
Rising to the challenge: Job stress, role overload, and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in the public sector	5
Cognitive bias in citizens’ perceptions of government performance in response to COVID-19: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment in China	5
How and when servant leadership fosters employee voice behavior: Evidence from Chinese local governments	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
Letter from the editor	5
Red tape reform, transaction costs, and corporate social performance: A natural quasi-experiment in China	5
Have we ‘stretched’ social impact bonds too far? An empirical analysis of SIB design in practice	5
Crisis management through citizen engagement on Twitter: The case of the covid-19 pandemic in Latin American municipalities	4
Co-production during crises: A strategy to mitigate crisis-induced conflicts in public service provision	4
Modeling the barriers to multistakeholder collaboration for COVID-19 pandemic response: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	4
No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: An audit study of access to nursing homes	4
The efficacy of protection: the effects of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 on the Transportation Security Administration	4
Connecting the dots between performance management and red tape perceptions	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
When intragroup conflict is a good thing: Team diversity and use of force by police	3
It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory	3
Coping with representation: the moderating effect of workload on individual-level representation	3
Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations	3
Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment	3
Telework and public value creation: Evidence from Mexican public officials	3
How knowledge sharing shapes the performance of U.S. federal agencies: The importance of agency task characteristics	3
Speaking truth to power—How political rhetoric leads to a counter response of LGBTQ street-level bureaucrats	3
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature	3
Through the mist: how institution-knowledge bricoleurs make sense of a crisis	3
Divergent pathways: PPP developments in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	3
Projectification and its impact on the work and identity of public sector employees: Project natives, emigrants and immigrants	2
Which trust matters and to whom in cross-sector collaboration? Evidence from the local level in the Middle East	2

A decade of subnational gender budgeting and its effects in India: A difference-in-differences analysis	2
Nonprofit organizational legitimacy and government grants under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese foundations	2
Do citizen perceptual measures align with archival performance measures: a meta-analysis	2
Strategic planning in public organizations: reviewing 35 years of research	2
Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts and compromises in five European Active-Labor Market Programs	2
E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints	2
Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction	2
Are collaborative challenges barriers to working together? – A multi-level multi-case network analysis	2
Cui prodest ? Nudging prosocial behavior among healthcare professionals	2
What makes networks innovative? A configurational analysis of 18 collaborative innovation cases	2
Can whistleblowing reshape public organizations? Examining the consequences of whistleblowing on procedural justice and perceived organizational performance	2
Whom do we learn from? The impact of global networks and political regime types on e-government development	2
Citizens’ choice to voice in response to administrative burdens	2
Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting	1
The perceived need for guanxi: Organizational, interpersonal, and individual antecedents	1
Red tape: Redefinition and reconceptualization based on production theory	1
How impressions of public employees’ warmth and competence influence trust in government	1
Local government management	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
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
When is “time’s up”? The influence of severity and costs/benefits on perceptions of whistleblowing	1
Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg	1
Processing stereotypes: professionalism confirmed or disconfirmed by sector affiliation?	1
Leadership training and just-in-time nudges: A field experiment on the transfer of learning into action	1
The design of opportunities for civil servants’ inter-departmental networking behavior	1
Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19	1
Beyond technology: reducing environmental information asymmetry by centralizing environmental monitoring	1
Risk Management and Public Service Reform Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services	1
Mapping response during the wartime: A network study of the humanitarian crisis efforts in Ukraine	1
Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment	1
Realizing public values in the co-production of public services: the effect of efficacy and trust on coping with public values conflicts	1
Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?	1
Intersectional identities in administrative encounters: empirical evidence from traffic policing	1