Public Management Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Management Review is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gendered cooperation in a post-NPM era: a comparative study of the perceptions of municipal technostructure experts and middle-line managers161
Turning rejection into adoption: enhancing the uptake of externally developed design proposals through boundary spanning113
A representative-represented matrix: exploring the symbolic effect of minority representation68
Management reforms, re-stratification and the adaptation of professional status hierarchies: The case of medicine in publicly owned hospitals67
Empowering justice: female police officers’ perspectives on advocating for female victims in South Korea58
Citizen perceptions of public school efficiency: evidence from the U.S.56
Message-sidedness in performance information disclosure and citizens’ perceived accountability: an experimental study55
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S Acute Care Hospitals54
With or without you: does local autonomy increase intergovernmental collaboration?53
Noise at the street level: revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety48
Making choices in addressing sustainability problems: A link to framing effects and protected values42
Collaborators, supplementers, purchasers and privatizers - profiling the social and health care delivery forms of finnish municipalities through cluster analysis39
The end of the world as we know it – public ethics in times of de-standardization and individualization38
Break my stride? The impact of collaboration entrants on community-level performance for economic development38
Fight or flight: How gender influences follower responses to unethical leader behaviour38
Do networks get emotional? The role of leaders’ emotions for (network) success36
The interactive effects of professionalism and politicization: why professional standards and political control mix like oil and water34
Correction30
Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation30
Transparency and citizen satisfaction: a meta-analysis and future research agenda29
Operational transparency and satisfaction with public services29
Empowering leadership in crisis: a natural experiment29
The effects of artificial intelligence and victims’ deservingness information on citizens’ blame attribution towards administrative errors28
One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation28
The bureaucratic reputation scale: cross-country and cross-language validation28
Value processes and lifecycles in networks for public service innovation27
Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms27
Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations27
Responsibilization and value conflicts in healthcare co-creation: a public service logic perspective27
Correction27
What makes co-production sustainable? A comparative case study of three self-managed homeless programs27
Psychological Contract Fulfillment in a Changing Public Sector: a Mixed-Methods Case-Study25
Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector25
Activating employees’ motivation to increase intentions to report wrongdoings: evidence from a large-scale survey experiment25
Capitalization of social service nonprofit activities: homeless service provider openings and home values25
When extreme work becomes the norm: an exploration of coping strategies of public sector nurses24
Design strategies for Citizen Strategic Orientation22
Paths to citizens-controlled coproduction: The use of blockchain technology in digital coproduction22
The politics of insufficiency: ambivalence and boundary work in the co-production of welfare services22
Beyond policy patrons: A ‘MADE’ framework for examining public engagement efforts of philanthropic foundations on Twitter21
Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services21
Fostering value facilitation through situated learning in communities of practice21
Collaboration in action: How micro-level relational dynamics are connected with issue frame convergence in collaborative governance networks21
Citizens’ motivations to coproduce: a Q methodological study on the City Governance Committee in Nanjing, China21
The impact of virtual reality on private value dimensions: a healthcare case study21
Do institutional pressures increase reactive transparency of government? Evidence from a field experiment20
Assuming accountability in the absence of control: the role of stewardship management20
Who are leading? A survey of organizational context explaining leadership behaviour of managers and non-managerial employees in public organizations19
Advancing Public Service Logic: moving towards an ecosystemic framework for value creation in the public service context19
The impact of accountability systems on public employee well-being and the moderating effects of role clarity and job autonomy18
Broader and more intensive sustainable public procurement: a legitimacy theory perspective18
Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities18
Framework for cross-border governance: from cross-border critical factors to sustainable development18
Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice18
Public servants’ creativity: salient stimulators and inhibitors a longitudinal qualitative digital diary study18
Satisficing or maximizing in public–private partnerships? A laboratory experiment on strategic bargaining18
Exploring the roles of non-profit organizations in co-production: a systematic literature review18
User-orientation in public service organizations: making use of value as a thick concept18
Conflicts over public value within public service ecosystems: a strategic action field approach18
Crisis lifecycle, policy response, and policy effectiveness18
Fraught with tension? A machine-learning approach to termination traits of public corporations in English and German local governments18
Blending the two communities: concurrent evidence use in state-level policy processes17
From recovery resilience to transformative resilience: How digital platforms reshape public service provision during and post COVID-1917
Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic: an integrated conceptual framework17
Does only performance feedback matter in public organizations? Testing the moderating role of directional managerial networking on performance improvement17
An empirical conceptualization of front line enablement by performance management17
Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims: evidence using longitudinal data from the European Commission17
Navigating the ‘meaningless’ of social innovation: perspectives of social care practitioners in Scotland17
Give and take: understanding innovative behaviour from a psychological contract perspective16
Conceptualizing the elements of value in public services: insights from practitioners16
Environmental antecedents, innovation experience, and officials’ innovation willingness: evidence from China16
Improvements in employee performance management over time: evidence from U.S. federal agencies16
Complexity, errors, and administrative burdens16
Advocacy as market stewardship in social care quasi-markets16
Artificial intelligence, types of decisions, and street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a survey experiment16
Public opinion on megaprojects over time: findings from four megaprojects in the UK16
Boundary spanning for contractual fairness in public infrastructure projects: its impact on performance and innovation16
Middle managers matter! Unpacking the deployment and adaptation of organization-level dynamic capabilities15
Antecedents of emergency services’ Street Level Bureaucrats’ (SLBs) delivery of public value: an exploratory study15
How does the usage of artificial intelligence affect felt administrative accountability of street-level bureaucrats? The mediating effect of perceived discretion15
Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector15
Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: evidence from a conjoint experiment14
Improvisational theatre as a viable path? Exploring interaction antecedents in public service innovation processes attempting to implement and sustain eHealth solutions14
Engaging experts by experience as co-producers: challenges and strategies14
Repairing public trust through communication in health crises: a systematic review of the literature14
Responding to reforms: resilience through rule-bending and workarounds in the police force14
Compliance with COVID-19 preventive policies and governmental transparency: an experimental analysis14
Does bureaucracy demotivate public servants? An assessment of psychological mechanisms and the moderating role of age14
Frontline organizations as experimental settings for policy change: why public management matters even more14
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships: evidence from four municipalities of China14
Key drivers and barriers to senior public managers’ engagement in digital service innovative behaviour: a qualitative study14
Fostering resilience and commitment among volunteers: the role of job demands and autonomy14
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments14
Challenges and opportunities for equity in public management: Digital applications in multicultural Smart cities14
What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study13
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations13
Manager characteristics and early innovation adoption during crises: the case of COVID-19 preventive measures in Danish Eldercare13
Citizens engaging in public service provision: value co-creation or hard work?13
Driving nonprofit hospitals to address health equity in community13
From the inside looking out: towards an ecosystem paradigm of third sector organizational performance measurement13
Citizen expectations, agency reputation and public service quality13
Understanding interlocal collaboration for service delivery for migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Guangdong, China13
Individual, organizational, and institutional accountability: a systematic literature review in public administration12
Public values? A systematic literature review into the outcomes of public service co-creation12
Two decades of public sector innovation: building an analytical framework from a systematic literature review of types, strategies, conditions, and results12
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state12
Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund12
Idiosyncrasies of public value: how individual characteristics influence citizen perceptions of public value12
Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England12
Ongoing strategizing in practice: Examining CEO activities and a social enterprise’s pathways to growth and greater effectiveness12
A patchwork quilt of public administration models without early weberianism? Public management reforms in Colombia since the 1980s12
Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program12
From external provision to technological outsourcing: lessons for public sector automation from the outsourcing literature11
Performance management in collaborations: exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use11
Procurement under pressure: shifting governance strategies in turbulent times11
Social equity for wicked problems: achieving racial equity in homeless service provision11
Heart over profit: unravelling the discourse on the non-profit sector’s added value11
Social enterprise as political work: perspectives from the global south11
The rise and fall of an NPM-style reform in China: a longitudinal case study of sanitation service delivery in Guangzhou11
Examining the effects of a performance management reform on employee attitudes and organizational climate11
Introducing strategic measures in public facilities management organizations: external and internal institutional work11
Receiving and engaging: can a simple ICT delivered government message change citizen health behavior? A field experiment11
Bringing together unlikely innovators: do connective and learning capacities impact collaboration for innovation and diversity of actors?11
Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates11
Co-creation and co-production in municipal risk governance – A case study of citizen participation in a German city10
The role of employee empowerment in promoting perceived behavioural control over whistleblowing: implications for public organizations10
Buffer and booster? Testing PSM’s role in job demands-resources theory10
Ready, set, crisis – transitioning to crisis mode in local public administration10
Bureaucratic encounter, voice behaviour and citizen satisfaction10
Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements10
Design for inclusive digital co-production10
Trust in nursing home services within weak regulatory regimes: the role of information, control and participation10
Same position, different roles? How professional, organizational, and public policy logics shape frontline managers’ role conceptions10
Development of hybrid professionalism: street-level managers’ work and the enabling conditions of public reform10
‘I do not want to be one of her favourites’. Emotional display and the co-production of frontline care services10
Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review10
Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model10
Public service motivation and policy implementation attitudes: survey experimental evidence from Street-level Bureaucrats in China10
Bureaucrat or artificial intelligence: people’s preferences and perceptions of government service10
Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement10
Politics and personalities: the 1986 Commonwealth Games as strategic action field10
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement: a panel study in Pakistan10
Two sides of the same coin: how does civil servants’ public service motivation affect work-family conflict?9
Self-organizing work in practice: the case of community-based flooding initiatives in Scotland9
Agency orientation and bureaucratic behaviour towards clients: evidence from a survey experiment among unemployment caseworkers9
Be prepared! Local politicians’ proclivity for local government adaptive capacity building in response to COVID-19: the role of risk perceptions9
Relationships matter: how workplace social capital affects absenteeism of public sector employees9
Encourage or impede? The relationship between trust in government and coproduction9
Agency autonomy, public service motivation, and organizational performance9
Love thy neighbour? Management team environment and effective leadership behaviour in public organizations9
Unlocking the process of collaborative innovation - Combining mechanisms of divergence and convergence9
Can information frames nudge citizens to co-produce in emergency preparedness? —evidence from a survey experiment9
Impact of relational and moral motives on social innovation: the mediating role of value co-creation9
Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials9
AI-driven public services and the privacy paradox: do citizens really care about their privacy?9
How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance: the case of La Vuelta Holanda9
Public sector creativity: triggers, practices and ideas for public sector innovations. A longitudinal digital diary study9
Can the experience in COVID-19 prevention and control improve the emergency response capacity of local civil servants in China?9
A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation9
More than a digital system: how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts9
Interlocal collaborative processes and network position: the combined effects on environmental performance8
Role perceptions, collaboration and performance: insights from identity theory8
Forced online-level bureaucrats during the pandemic. Analysing the telework experience of social service workers8
Correction8
Using Twitter to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of United States governors8
The impact of telework on the satisfaction of U.S. federal workers8
Two logics of democracy in collaborative governance: a mapping of clashes and compromises8
Job sector or PSM? Examining the relative effects of sector and public service motivation on prosocial behaviour8
Government crisis messaging on social media, citizen online engagement and compliance with policies8
Designing response networks in turbulent times: necessary and sufficient conditions8
Collaborative governance in Social Impact Bonds: aligning interests within divergent accountabilities?7
Transformational-transactional leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior in the public sector: does public service motivation make a difference?7
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks: an experimental study7
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits: moving from words to action7
Supervisory autonomy support: does it strengthen the PSM—Employee engagement relationship?7
How is empathy used in public service? A systematic literature review7
Shifting oversight: the evolution of modern police performance management in England and Wales7
Mitigating collaborative inertia: how leadership transfer networks improve the low-carbon governance of local governments7
Understanding stringency of performance systems: the case of performance-based funding in U.S. higher education7
Staff (mis)allocation in public agencies: evidence from protected area management in Brazil7
Internalizing transparency and its relationship with corruption: insights from Colombian public servants7
Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material7
Practicing knowledge-agency in highly vulnerable communities: the frontlines of Governance in delivering Brazilian Human services7
Performance management, gaming and regulatory monitoring: a theoretical model and applications7
Flying with clipped wings: dynamic capabilities of publicly owned health care providers7
Correction7
Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking7
New public management in U.S. higher education: is privatization associated with lower costs?6
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review6
Police leadership at the political interface: A systematic literature review6
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services6
Exploring the dysfunctional consequences of performance evaluation systems: how does ‘evaluation overload’ affect organizational performance?6
The influence of new public management on the police first-line manager: exploring the challenges faced by practitioner managers6
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses6
Accountability in outsourced public service delivery: an Australian study6
Fast fashion: the rapid layering of management fashions in the Swedish city of Gothenburg6
Updating public accountability: a conceptual framework of voluntary accountability6
Influence of public innovation laboratories on the development of public sector ambidexterity6
Effect of knowledge search depth, user co-creation and moderating factors on the outcomes of service innovations by European public sector organizations6
Public officials’ motivated reasoning and their interpretation of policy information6
How does citizen-centric co-production lead to value co-creation? A perspective of interactive governance6
The role of resource allocation for regime performance in networks for local integration policies6
Insights into public management from policing: introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review6
Organizing for co-production: the role of leadership cultures6
Who “We” are matters: the influence of organizational identity orientation on public participation in government6
Public service management reform: an institutional work and collective framing approach6
Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives6
Exploring the impact of collaboration processes on policy networks success: a case study of food policy councils5
Implementing AI in the public sector5
Hybrid professional managers in healthcare: an expanding or thwarted occupational interest?5
Public service resilience post-Covid: Introduction to the special issue5
Creating and maintaining momentum – relational work in public-private innovation partnerships5
Let’s pack the backpack together: rethinking routines in public innovation as interactions and public value creation5
Understanding financial resilience from a resource-based view: Evidence from US state governments5
Job-fit and high-performance versus high-empowerment HR: moderators of the PSM—organizational commitment relationship5
Performance feedback, blame avoidance, and data manipulation in the public sector: evidence from China’s official city air quality ranking5
Paradoxes in collaborative governance5
Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework5
In search of legitimacy: conflicting logics and identities of management consultants in public administration5
Factors influencing citizens’ adoption of e-government: an empirical validation in a Developing Latin American Country5
Drivers of collaborative governance for the green transition5
Beyond reporting: What drives performance data use in sustainability management? Empirical evidence from U.S. cities5
Organizational fragmentation and service performance of municipal water districts5
Applying organizational density to local public service performance: separating homeless service outcomes from outputs5
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation5
Value co-destruction through misintegration of resources within a public service ecosystem5
Exploring the virtuous circle of societal value creation and capture by non-profit organizations from a Bourdieusian perspective5
Does the teaming of career street-level bureaucrats and lay officials promote street-level resolutions that favour the citizens’ claims?5
When ecosystem design shapes strategizing: exploring public value creation in Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games5
The dual nature of innovation in government: differentiating between generation and borrowing5
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia5
A review of open strategy: bridging strategy and public management research5
Collaborative governance in strong state settings: perceived voluntariness and the role of the state in Rural China5
Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability5
Active representation and identity taxation: unintended outcome of representative labour?5
Realizing NetZero in social housing: strategic public procurement and internal stakeholder engagement5
Navigating network governance: the role of social enterprise in local employment services5
Mobilizing to take responsibility: exploring the relationship between Sense of Community Responsibility (SOC-R), Public Service Motivation (PSM) and public service resilience during Covid-195
Managing the performance of healthcare networks: a ‘dance’ between control and collaboration5
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland5
Do network management and trust matter for network outcomes? A meta-analysis and research agenda5
‘We are all vulnerable, we are all fragile’: COVID-19 as opportunity for, or constraint on, health service resilience in Colombia?5
Do visionary and servant leaders reduce cognitive uncertainty of professionals? A study of team-based settings in public organizations5
Network governance of collaborative innovation: a bipartite network perspective5
Who becomes a civil servant? Evidence from a decade of youth panel analysis4
The differing effects of individual- and group-based pay for performance on employee satisfaction: the role of the perceived fairness of performance evaluations4
Co-production with vulnerable people: an exploratory study in mental health care4
Media, trust, and the influence of urban/rural context and education on public sector worker stereotypes4
HRM autonomy, integration and performance in government agencies: tests of necessity and sufficiency4
Local government amalgamations: state of the art and new ways forward4
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