OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Performance & Management Review is 2. 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
Going Virtual: The Impacts of a Virtual Charter School Governance Reform	59
How Does Policy Implementation Affect the Sustainability of Public–Private Partnership Projects? A Stakeholder-Based Framework	40
Meta-Analyzing the Trust-Performance Link in Collaboration: Moderating Effects of Conceptual and Contextual Factors	30
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	28
Linking Top Leader Turnover to the Performance of Public Organizations: Evidence from New York City Public High Schools	21
Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting	20
Introduction	18
Is Textual Information Contained in Financial Documents Informative? Assessing Transparency using Textual Analysis	18
Human Resources in Nonprofits: An Indicator of Managerial Preparedness or Program Needs?	17
Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program	14
Beyond Red Tape: An Organizational Echelon Analysis of Necessary Bureaucracy	13
Signal of Financial or Performance Transparency? The Impact and Mechanisms of Nonprofit Transparency on Donation Willingness	13
Explaining Coordination Quality in Public Service Delivery	12
The Legitimizing Role of Outsider Board Members: The Case of the U.S. Nonprofit Health Care Sector	12
Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests	12
Seeding Community Intermediary Organizations and the Liability of Growth in Obtaining Local Giving	11
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	11
Institutional arrangements of government and municipal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Co-Design for Public Service Innovation in China: The Enabling Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats	11
All Is Not LOST in Texas? An Outcome-Oriented Analysis of Local Option Sales Tax Choices on Measures of Economic Growth	10
Does Revenue Diversification Really Improve Mission Performance? Evidence from a Sample of Human Service Nonprofits	10
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	10
Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19	10
The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance	9
Organizational Ambidexterity: A Bibliometric Review and Framework for Future Public Administration Research	9

Factors of Proactive Disclosure of Information at the Local Level	9
Financial Incentives and Prosocial Motivation Among Physicians in a Faith-Based Society	9
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment	9
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	8
Strategy Formulation Process and Interorganizational Collaboration	8
Environmental Target and Government Performance in China	8
When Value is Created but There is No Record: An Eyewitness Account of Public Value Creation in a Student Resource Officer Program	8
How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation	8
Is Active Representation of People With Disabilities Possible in Türkiye? A Qualitative Research on Factors Preventing the Active Representation of Disabled Bureaucrats and Solutions	8
Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy	7
How Does Sense of Power Influence Change-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior? Evidence from China	7
Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis	7
Balancing Managerialism and Autonomy: A Panel Study of the Link Between Managerial Autonomy, Performance Goals, and Organizational Performance	7
How Leader–Member Exchange Relates to Subjective Well-Being in Grassroots Officials: The Mediating Roles of Job Insecurity and Job Burnout	7
Public Participation in Policy Making: Evidence from a Citizen Advisory Panel	7
Resource Development and Use in a Nonprofit Collaboration	7
Cognition, Collective Action, and COVID-19: Managing Crises in Real Time	6
Service Delivery Under Pressure: The Effect of Donor-Imposed Financial Restrictions	6
Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services	6
Psychosocial Safety Climate, Psychological Capital, Healthcare SLBs’ Wellbeing and Innovative Behaviour During the COVID 19 Pandemic	6
Are Autonomy and Intrinsic Motivation of Public Servants Lower in Post-Communist States?	6
Do Fiscal Rules Tame the Political Taxation Cycles under Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from China’s New Budget Law	6
The Use of Performance Information under Conflict: A Large-N Study	6
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	6
A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation	6
Determinants of Gender Budgeting Practices: Evidence from Municipal Governments in South Korea	6
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	6
What Gets Measured Gets Managed? The Use of Performance Information across Organizational Echelons in the Public Sector	6
Impact of Ethical Leadership on Job Satisfaction and Work-Related Burnout among Turkish Street-Level Bureaucrats: The Roles of Public Service Motivation, Perceived Organizational Support, and Red Tape	6
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	6
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	5
Understanding New Advances in Network Governance: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Can the Use of Debt by Nonprofit Organizations Raise Government Funding?	5
Promises and Challenges of Racial Equity Budgeting from the Perspective of Generally Accepted Performance Principles (GAPP)	5
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	5
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	5
The Influence of Efficiency Information on Citizen Perceptions of School District Outcomes	5
Promoting Research Utilization Through Social Media: Evidence from U.S. Public Administration and Policy Researchers	4
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Revenue Performance? Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	4
Inclusive Leadership, Workplace Spirituality, and Job Performance in the Public Sector: A Multi-Level Double-Moderated Mediation Model of Leader-Member Exchange and Perceived Dissimilarity	4
Gender Representation and Females’ Performance: The Role of Discretion Between Stakeholders	4
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	4
The Determinants of Targeted Transparency in the U.S. States: The Roles of Targeted Organizations and State Fiscal Environments	4
Does Fiscal Slack Buffer Against Budgetary Shocks? Exploring the Heterogeneous Impacts of Unabsorbed and Absorbed Slack on Credit Ratings of Municipal Governments in the United States	4
Optimal Turnover Rates and Performance in Public Organizations: Theoretical Expectations	4
Shirking When Bureaucratic Accountability Is Due? Evidence from Managing Severe Safety Accidents	4
Does Gender Explain the Indebtedness Levels of Local Governments?	4
Solo Dance or Pas de Deux? The Sector Stereotype Matters in Coproduction	4
How Institutional Pressures Influence the Blame Avoidance Behavior of Civil Servants in China	4
Grading Teacher Performance Appraisal Systems: Understanding the Implications of Student Test Scores and Performance Information Use	4

Motivations behind Vaccine Hesitancy: Examining Altruism and Government Distrust across Job Sectors during COVID-19	4
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	4
For Better or Worse? Revenue Forecasting with Machine Learning Approaches	4
Reform Stress in the Public Sector? Linking Change Diversity to Turnover Intentions and Presenteeism Among Civil Servants Using a Matching Approach	4
The Performance of Public–Private Partnerships: An Evaluation of 15 Years DBFM in Dutch Infrastructure Governance	3
Performance Measurement System Design as Link Between Strategy Formulation and Performance Information Use in Public Sector Organizations	3
Policymaking during COVID-19: Preemptive State Interventions and the Factors Influencing Policy Implementation Success	3
Applying the Loss-Conflict Model of Fiscal Retrenchment: Understanding City Expenditure and Revenue Responses to a Budget Crisis	3
Personality Traits’ Predictors of Outstanding Performance in the Public Sector	3
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	3
Political Influences of Stakeholders on Early Termination of Public-Private Partnerships: A Study on China’s Toll Road Projects	3
Correction	3
Why Are Some States Reluctant to Implement the ACA Medicaid Expansion? Focusing on State Fiscal Capacity	3
Help or Harm? Understanding the Nuanced Influence Mechanisms Between Paradoxical Leadership Behaviors and Work–Family Conflicts in the Public Sector	3
The Determinants of Tax-Based Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of State Governments	3
Measuring the Acceptability of Facial Recognition-Enabled Work Surveillance Cameras in the Public and Private Sector	3
Ambidexterity in Cross-Sector Collaborations Involving Public Organizations	3
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	3
Exploring the Shift from Output Measures to Outcome Measures of Service Delivery: Insights from Municipal Research	3
Improved Local Implementation under Central Inspection? Evidence from Social Mandates in China	3
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	3
Does Legitimacy Affect the Collaborative Regulation in the Food Safety Administration? Evidence from China	3
Resilience Through Collaboration? Emerging Tensions and Paradoxes in Crisis Management	3
City Managers as Digital Transformation Leaders: Exploratory and Explanatory Notes	3
Accountability at its Finest: Law Enforcement Agencies and Body-Worn Cameras	3
Does Prosocial Impact Reduce Performance Data Gaming? The Role of Data Visualizations and Expert-Novice Differences	3
Institutional Dimensions in Open Government Data: A Deep Dive Into Indonesia’s Satu Data Initiative and Its Implications for Developing Countries	3
How M-government Services Build Relative Trust? The Mediating Roles of Value Creation and Risk Perception	3
Organizational Performance and Government Resource Allocation: Panel Evidence from Washington State’s Public Programs	2
Local Government Responses to State Fiscal Controls: The Effects of Fiscal Preemptions on the Methods of Local Service Delivery	2
Does the Race of an Agency Director Affect How Their Performance Is Perceived?	2
Management Capacity, Financial Resources, and Organizational Performance: Evidence from State Transportation Agencies	2
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	2
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	2
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	2
Accrual-Based Accounting and Fiscal Performance: Empirical Evidence from Higher Education Institutions	2
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	2
An Old Puzzle and Unprecedented Challenges: Coordination in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US	2
Managing the Market-Mission Tension: When Does Commercial Revenue Crowd out Charitable Contributions?	2
The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	2
Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea	2
How Do Performance Pressures and Public Participation Demands Affect a City Agency’s Network Behavior? An Analysis of Interagency Networks in Seoul Metropolitan Government	2
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
More Than a Logo: Branding Viewpoints from City Managers Leading to Testable Propositions	2
Target and Performance: Evidence from China’s Air Quality Management	2
Outsourcing Services: A Theory of Special District Incorporation	2
The Impact of Fiscal Openness on Public Spending Technical Efficiency in Developing Countries	2
Performance Feedback, Target-Setting, and Data Manipulation in a Multi-Goal Situation: Evidence from Chinese Cities	2
Understanding the Diverse Performance Measures of Nonprofits: A Quantitative Study of Performance Measurement Adoption	2
Does It Pay to Pay for Success? Stakeholder Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of PFS Feasibility Studies*	2
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	2
Role of Managerial and Political Accountability in Improving Performance of Local Governments	2
The Checks of the Council: Local Horizontal Accountability’s Effects on Municipal Corruption in Latin America	2