Public Management Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Management Review is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Empowering justice: female police officers’ perspectives on advocating for female victims in South Korea129
Gendered leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: how democracy and representation moderate leadership effectiveness90
Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material58
Public–private hybrid organisations in the public sector: Evidence and future directions from a systematic literature review56
Do health vouchers broaden the choices of citizens with low socioeconomic status? An analysis of Medicaid in Brooklyn49
Management reforms, re-stratification and the adaptation of professional status hierarchies: The case of medicine in publicly owned hospitals48
Ambiguity, appraisal, and affect: examining the connections between goal perceptions, emotional labour, and exhaustion38
Putting auditing in the context of democratic governance: the question of auditing discretion from the public’s perspective38
Citizen expectations, agency reputation and public service quality38
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program38
From the inside looking out: towards an ecosystem paradigm of third sector organizational performance measurement37
Performance management, gaming and regulatory monitoring: a theoretical model and applications34
How do different organizational influences lead street-level workers to move towards clients? A comparison of care services for the elderly in Germany and Israel34
Mediation analysis of public emotions in response to policy implementation performance during crises: the case of COVID-19 management policies in the UK34
Internalizing transparency and its relationship with corruption: insights from Colombian public servants32
Do political and social accountability arrangements increase citizens’ legitimacy perceptions? A vignette experiment in the Netherlands30
The management of bias and noise in public sector decision-making: experimental evidence from healthcare29
Enhancing strategic public procurement: a public service logic perspective28
Citizen perceptions of public school efficiency: evidence from the U.S.28
Public service management reform: an institutional work and collective framing approach28
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S Acute Care Hospitals27
Public management during a crisis: when are citizens willing to contribute to institutional emergency preparedness?25
Enabling street-level work: minimal structures for customized social services25
Citizen participation through different mechanisms: does social media impact adoption and design of local sustainability plans?25
The end of the world as we know it – public ethics in times of de-standardization and individualization23
Public service management during the Covid-19 lockdown: a qualitative study23
Making choices in addressing sustainability problems: A link to framing effects and protected values23
Noise at the street level: revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety23
Fight or flight: How gender influences follower responses to unethical leader behaviour22
The new era leadership for the public sector? Entrepreneurship, effectiveness, and democracy22
Psychological needs at work and job satisfaction: is there a divide between the public and private sectors?22
Continuity of Operations and Organisational Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from City Governments in the US Northeast Region22
Gendered cooperation in a post-NPM era: a comparative study of the perceptions of municipal technostructure experts and middle-line managers21
Organizational changes in the public sector and employee presenteeism: does (change) leadership matter?21
A representative-represented matrix: exploring the symbolic effect of minority representation21
Turning rejection into adoption: enhancing the uptake of externally developed design proposals through boundary spanning19
Enhancing or attenuating? How patronage ties moderate the impact of performance feedback on performance improvement in the public sector19
How is empathy used in public service? A systematic literature review19
Public officials’ interpretation of conflicting performance information: goal reprioritization or unbiased decision-making?18
Public trust and collaborative governance: an instrumental variable approach18
Can’t buy me love? An experiment on the relationship between federal grant spending and public approval of federal agencies18
Core-periphery structure and power imbalance in disaster management networks: a Bayesian approach to interorganizational response to a public health disaster18
Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking18
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England18
Working 9 to 5? A cross-national analysis of public sector worker stereotypes17
Exploring the dysfunctional consequences of performance evaluation systems: how does ‘evaluation overload’ affect organizational performance?17
Representation, reputation and expectations towards bureaucracy: experimental findings from a favela in Brazil17
A dynamic study of citizen satisfaction: replicating and extending Van Ryzin’s “testing the expectancy disconfirmation model of citizen satisfaction with local government”17
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits: moving from words to action17
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations17
Manager characteristics and early innovation adoption during crises: the case of COVID-19 preventive measures in Danish Eldercare16
The role of public workforce diversity and the administrative ecosystem in advancing digital public service innovation16
Correction16
Flying with clipped wings: dynamic capabilities of publicly owned health care providers16
Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund16
Institutional logics and relational shifts: permeating hierarchies and silos in the healthcare sector16
Learning how to do AI: managing organizational boundaries in an intergovernmental learning forum15
‘Real-world’ priority setting for service improvement in English primary care: a decentred approach15
Transformational change in a hospital: how time and history constitute leadership agency15
Managing portfolios of Co-creation projects in the public sector organization15
Why officials are held strictly accountable: a qualitative comparative analysis of emergencies in China15
AI as an organizational agent to nurture: effectively introducing chatbots in public entities14
Can effective organizational rules keep employees from leaving? a study of green tape and turnover intention14
Driving nonprofit hospitals to address health equity in community14
Unpacking the accountability cube and its relationship with blame avoidance14
Resource dependence and the survival of government-created social enterprises14
Public values? A systematic literature review into the outcomes of public service co-creation14
Collaborators, supplementers, purchasers and privatizers - profiling the social and health care delivery forms of finnish municipalities through cluster analysis14
Effect of knowledge search depth, user co-creation and moderating factors on the outcomes of service innovations by European public sector organizations14
Individual, organizational, and institutional accountability: a systematic literature review in public administration14
Symbolic representation in policing: How officer characteristics shape police-suspect interactions14
Public health care innovation lab tackling the barriers of public sector innovation13
Creeping crises and public administration: a time for adaptive governance strategies and cross-sectoral collaboration?13
Understanding interlocal collaboration for service delivery for migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Guangdong, China13
Are “justified” biases acceptable? Citizens’ perceptions of gendered government hiring13
Does performance-based accountability impact how non-profit directors perceive organizational performance? Insights from rational planning13
In memoriam - Gyorgy Jenei and Irvine Lapsley12
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state12
How strategic public procurement creates social value: Evidence from UK anchor institutions12
Ongoing strategizing in practice: Examining CEO activities and a social enterprise’s pathways to growth and greater effectiveness12
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks: an experimental study12
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study12
Empowering the frontline: internal and external organizational antecedents of teacher empowerment12
Citizens engaging in public service provision: value co-creation or hard work?12
Understanding the durability of community enterprises in England. Results of a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis12
Message-sidedness in performance information disclosure and citizens’ perceived accountability: an experimental study12
Partisan bias and citizen satisfaction, confidence, and trust in the U.S. Federal Government12
Introducing strategic measures in public facilities management organizations: external and internal institutional work11
One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation11
Preconditions of coordination in regional public organizations11
Performance management in collaborations: exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use11
The govern(mentality) of financial reporting reform: lessons from UK central government11
Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory11
Digital transformation in public sector auditing: between hope and fear11
Public officials’ motivated reasoning and their interpretation of policy information11
Heart over profit: unravelling the discourse on the non-profit sector’s added value11
The role of resource allocation for regime performance in networks for local integration policies11
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability11
Money matters: teachers in the public and private sectors11
Social enterprise as political work: perspectives from the global south11
The threat of appearing lazy, inefficient, and slow? Stereotype threat in the public sector10
Analysing the development of performance measures in US federal agencies: has the GPRA Modernization Act worked?10
Death anxiety among street-level bureaucrats: how does it affect their work drive and performance?10
Break my stride? The impact of collaboration entrants on community-level performance for economic development10
How client characteristics cause extra-role behaviours in public service: uncovering invisible frontline work10
Do networks get emotional? The role of leaders’ emotions for (network) success10
A persistent ideal of public services networks amid alternative reform strategies: a study over three decades10
Insights into public management from policing: introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review10
A population ecology of network domains10
OK computer: applying the public service logic on digital health services10
Compensatory collaborative governance: filling pandemic transparency gaps in Brazil and the United States10
Street-level bureaucrats as policymakers in the implementation of information system in social services10
Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation10
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services10
Examining the effects of a performance management reform on employee attitudes and organizational climate10
Adopting management philosophies: management gurus, public organizations, and the Economies of Worth10
Organizing for co-production: the role of leadership cultures10
Who “We” are matters: the influence of organizational identity orientation on public participation in government10
Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates10
Transitioning to network governance in the social services sector: the blending and segregating mechanisms in the hybridization process10
Citizens and the legitimacy outcomes of collaborative governance An administrative burden perspective10
The effects of artificial intelligence and victims’ deservingness information on citizens’ blame attribution towards administrative errors10
Understanding vertical pay dispersion in the public sector: the role of publicness for manager-to-worker pay ratios and interdisciplinary agenda for future research9
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness: A 30-year assessment and future agenda for public administration9
Workplace spirituality and service-oriented performance via work engagement in public organizations: the moderating role of service climate9
Agents and logics in community policing: the designing of performance measures9
Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives9
Influence of public innovation laboratories on the development of public sector ambidexterity9
Understanding street‐level bureaucrats’ informal collaboration: Evidence from police officers across the jurisdictional divide9
Task complexity, organizational size, and performance: an examination of the U.S. state budget agencies9
The rise and fall of an NPM-style reform in China: a longitudinal case study of sanitation service delivery in Guangzhou9
Exploring user co-regulation of public services: insights from the Grenoble water user committee9
Procurement under pressure: shifting governance strategies in turbulent times9
Setting the stage: scenic design and observers’ perceptions of the quality of public governance meetings9
Why do some local governments respond actively to the initiatives of national Non-Governmental Organizations?8
Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms8
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes8
Public participation and distributional equity of government spending8
Transparency and citizen satisfaction: a meta-analysis and future research agenda8
Idiosyncrasies of public value: how individual characteristics influence citizen perceptions of public value8
Correction8
Understanding the moral myopia and ambiguity of post-employment conflicts of interest: comparing police to other public and private organizations8
Does accountability improve government performance? Evidence from the U.S. state fiscal monitoring and intervention systems8
The bureaucratic reputation scale: cross-country and cross-language validation8
Empowering leadership in crisis: a natural experiment8
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature8
Two decades of public sector innovation: building an analytical framework from a systematic literature review of types, strategies, conditions, and results8
Public management and policing: a dialectical inquiry8
Street-level bureaucracy and Co-creation: towards theory synthesis and cross-fertilization8
Automation and discretion: explaining the effect of automation on how street-level bureaucrats enforce7
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses7
Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures7
Receiving and engaging: can a simple ICT delivered government message change citizen health behavior? A field experiment7
A policy-oriented approach to co-production. The case of homestay accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers7
Bringing together unlikely innovators: do connective and learning capacities impact collaboration for innovation and diversity of actors?7
Adding sectors or strengthening ties? Adaptive strategies for cross-sector collaboration in disaster governance7
Nudging water conservation through information framing: evidence from a survey experiment among Chinese citizens7
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample7
Spreading information or engaging the public? The German police’s communication on Twitter7
Fiscal outcomes arising from amalgamation: more complex than merely economies of scale7
A patchwork quilt of public administration models without early weberianism? Public management reforms in Colombia since the 1980s7
Roles of professionals in value co-creation: a systematic literature review6
Exploring artificial intelligence adoption in public organizations: a comparative case study6
Who are leading? A survey of organizational context explaining leadership behaviour of managers and non-managerial employees in public organizations6
Determinants of public-private partnership governance structures: evidence from India6
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective6
How does citizen-centric co-production lead to value co-creation? A perspective of interactive governance6
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia6
The complexities of digitization and street-level discretion: a socio-materiality perspective6
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review6
Accountability and police use of force: Interactive effects between minority representation and civilian review boards6
Activating employees’ motivation to increase intentions to report wrongdoings: evidence from a large-scale survey experiment6
Information sharing in public-private relationships: the role of boundary objects in contracts6
Public sector innovation in context: A comparative study of innovation types6
Drivers of adaptive resilience of public sector organizations: an investigation into the individual characteristics of hybrid professional managers5
Assessing the relevance of governmental characteristics to address wicked problems in turbulent times5
Accountability in outsourced public service delivery: an Australian study5
Predictors of change outcomes in mandated change: unpacking the outcome triangle5
Is government escaping blame? the effect of contracting and victim attributes in a prisoner transportation experiment5
Failed cases of collaborative innovation: when a castle turns into a tent5
Do visionary and servant leaders reduce cognitive uncertainty of professionals? A study of team-based settings in public organizations5
Development of hybrid professionalism: street-level managers’ work and the enabling conditions of public reform5
Empowered service users: peer workers co-production in Norwegian mental health and substance use services5
Walking the tightrope: successful management of public and private interests in hybrid state-owned enterprises5
Organizational risk perception in public agencies: the role of contracting and scientific and professional information5
Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement5
Vulnerability in frontline public service: potential threats and implications for policy implementation5
Politics and personalities: the 1986 Commonwealth Games as strategic action field5
Exploring network mechanisms to organizations’ influence reputation: a case of collaborative disaster response5
Weathering the cutbacks: the buffering role of representative bureaucracy in environmental policy implementation5
Design strategies for Citizen Strategic Orientation5
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions5
The impact of virtual reality on private value dimensions: a healthcare case study5
Coproduction and satisfaction with online schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from European countries5
A tension lens for understanding public innovation diffusion processes5
Bureaucrat or artificial intelligence: people’s preferences and perceptions of government service5
Does negative feedback on financial performance affect managerial turnover?5
Capitalization of social service nonprofit activities: homeless service provider openings and home values5
Leading with dissent: guerrilla government and the ethical art of disobedience5
Collaboration in action: How micro-level relational dynamics are connected with issue frame convergence in collaborative governance networks5
Does gender matter in budget deviations? An empirical assessment of Spanish local governments5
Co-producing field experiments in public management research: a guide to enhanced research–practice collaboration5
Beyond policy patrons: A ‘MADE’ framework for examining public engagement efforts of philanthropic foundations on Twitter5
Innovation in public organizations: the role of human capital5
Interventions to reduce bureaucratic discrimination: a systematic review of empirical behavioural research5
Fast fashion: the rapid layering of management fashions in the Swedish city of Gothenburg5
The dance of power and responsibility: understanding the multilevel government influence on CSR practices in Chinese state-owned enterprises5
New public management in U.S. higher education: is privatization associated with lower costs?5
Contractual acrobatics: a configurational analysis of outcome specifications and payment in outcome-based contracts5
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context4
Correction4
New public management marketizers versus Neo-Weberian state modernizers? Institutional configurations of social impact bond utilization among 18 OECD countries4
Conflict and cooperation within police units: the importance of manager inclusiveness4
The networked bureaucracy: reinventing formalization in the context of collaborative governance4
In search of legitimacy: conflicting logics and identities of management consultants in public administration4
Social equity for wicked problems: achieving racial equity in homeless service provision4
Understanding transversal leadership in public organizations: conceptualization and development of a measurement scale4
Capabilities for transformative sustainability management in cities4
Factors shaping the use of performance information by public managers4
Network governance of collaborative innovation: a bipartite network perspective4
Bureaucratic encounter, voice behaviour and citizen satisfaction4
Ready, set, crisis – transitioning to crisis mode in local public administration4
Understanding data professionals in the police: a qualitative study of system-level bureaucrats4
Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review4
Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations4
Governance innovation as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM4
Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector4
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city4
Relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state during the COVID-19 pandemic: complementary, supplementary, or adversarial?4
‘I do not want to be one of her favourites’. Emotional display and the co-production of frontline care services4
Collaborative governance in strong state settings: perceived voluntariness and the role of the state in Rural China4
Buffer and booster? Testing PSM’s role in job demands-resources theory3
Satisficing or maximizing in public–private partnerships? A laboratory experiment on strategic bargaining3
Creation of state organizations: experiments with ideal-type reform models in a non-Western country3
Job-fit and high-performance versus high-empowerment HR: moderators of the PSM—organizational commitment relationship3
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements3
Does the past matter? Unravelling the temporal interdependencies of institutions in the success of public–private partnerships3
Public leadership to foster peacebuilding in violently divided societies3
Do institutional pressures increase reactive transparency of government? Evidence from a field experiment3
Professional managers, public values? The delicate balance between corporatization and stewardship to society3
Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model3
Citizens’ motivations to coproduce: a Q methodological study on the City Governance Committee in Nanjing, China3
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework3
Relational leadership in local governance: the engagement of mayors with citizens, public managers and politicians3
Collaborative innovation in a local authority – ‘local economic development-by-project’?3
Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice3
Factors influencing citizens’ adoption of e-government: an empirical validation in a Developing Latin American Country3
Social innovation during turbulent times: a systematic literature review and research agenda3
Travelling along the public service co-production road: a bibliometric analysis and interpretive review3
The politics of insufficiency: ambivalence and boundary work in the co-production of welfare services3
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