OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Performance & 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	36
Administrative Burdens in Digital Services: Insights from Citizen Experiences	35
Bridging Public Engagement and Policy Mechanisms: How Citizen-Generated Data Shapes Environmental Policy Design	34
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	34
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	33
Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Crisis Governance: Insights from COVID-19 Containment in Asia-Pacific	30
The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance	23
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	23
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	22
Local Civic Engagement in Turbulent Times: Trust in Governance, Managerial Quality, Ethnicity, and Education During Polycrises	22
Truth and Democratic Accountability: Considerations for the Public Sphere, Public Leadership and Performance Management	20
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	20
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	19
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	19
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	19
Does Contracting Out Serve the Public Value in the Digital Era? Provider Choice of Local Governments in E-Government Service Delivery	19
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	18
Which Survey Design Can Serve as an Authentic Citizen Satisfaction Measurement? A Cross-Survey Comparison	16
Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction	16
Examining the Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Municipal Fiscal Conditions	16
Managerial Networking, Community Social Capital, and Performance Improvement in Public Organizations	16
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	16
The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	15
Attribution Framing and Citizens’ Perceptions of Bureaucracies, Bureaucrats and Public Servants	15

Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View	15
Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health	15
Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units	15
Influence of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Behavior in the Korean Public Service Sector: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Change Management and PSM	14
Relationship between Transparency and Efficiency in Municipal Governments: Several Nonparametric Approaches	14
Consequences of Public Sector Employees’ CSR Perceptions in a Developing Country: Organizational Benefits and Beyond	14
Short-Term Patronage: Job Uncertainty and Temporary Employment in Politicized Bureaucracies	13
How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience	13
Conflict Research in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review	13
Beyond Adoption: Conditions Shaping Public Officials’ Use of AI Chatbots in Government	12
A Clarity Conundrum: Impacts of Recipient Perspectives and Eligibility Language on Perceptions of Safety Net Access for System-Involved Populations	12
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes	12
The Future of Public Administration in the U.S.: Coping with Political Dysfunction in Scholarship and Practice	11
Adaptability of Governance Arrangements in Response to COVID-19: Effectiveness of Hierarchy Market or Collaborative?	11
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment	11
Is Active Representation of People With Disabilities Possible in Türkiye? A Qualitative Research on Factors Preventing the Active Representation of Disabled Bureaucrats and Solutions	11
Promoting Public Support For Significant Policy Changes Through Persuasive Messaging: Evidence From China’s COVID-19 Control Policy	11
The Supply of Collaboration Assets During co-Response to Overlapping and Concurrent Community Problems	11
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	11
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	11
Framing the COVID-19 Crisis: Analyzing State Media Strategies in China Using Deep Learning Models	11
Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations	11
Carrots or Sticks: How Regulatory Instruments Within Public Organizations Shape E-Government Performance?	11
Public Opinion and the Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support	10
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	10
Integrating Agency and Stewardship Theories: A Trust–Distrust Framework for Understanding Accountability Relationships Within Outsourced Public Services	10
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	10
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	10
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	10
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	10
Fairness Through Awareness: Anticipated Stigma, Nonprofit “Know Your Rights” Information, and Perceptions of Bureaucratic Encounters	10
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	10
Austerity Urbanism or Pragmatic Municipalism—Evidence from the Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Property Tax Abatements	10
Cross-Level Weaving: The Co-Construction of Structure-Practice in Crisis Governance	9
What We Know and Don’t Know About Public Management Practices and Financial Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	9
The Diffusion of Performance-Based Budgeting Reforms: Cross-Provincial Evidence from China	9
The Emotional Backlash of Public Accountability	9
When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector	9
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	9
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	9
Bringing Citizens to the Table: The Impact of Participation Costs on Budget Participation	9
Efficiency or Equity? How Public Values Shape Bureaucrats' Willingness to Use Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Administrative Burdens	9
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	9
Improving Governance to Reduce Administrative Burden and Increase Funding for School-Based Health Services	9
The Role of Trust Claims and Public Value Creation in Public Safety Partnerships	9
Understanding the Evolving International Collaborative Governance for Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeast Asia: An Institutional Collective Action Perspective	9
Beyond tradeoffs: How Do Local Governments Synergize Multiple Complementary Goals?	9
Investigating the Link Between Human Capital and Government Performance	8
The Impact of Public Service Motivation on Voice Behavior and the Moderating Role of Risk Preference: A Survey Among Grassroots Public Employees in China	8
The Hidden Killer of Incentives? Understanding the Role of Administrative Burdens in Co-Production	8

Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas	8
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors	8
Feeling Good About Doing Good: How the Perceived Authenticity of Organizational Social Responsibility Impacts Affective Organizational Commitment of Local Government Employees	8
Predicting technological coproduction: An experimental study	8
Exploring Determinants of Adaptive Capacity: The Nonprofit Sector in the Turbulent COVID-19 Environment in Belarus and Ukraine	8
Does the Smart City Improve Public Service Delivery? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China	8
Gendered Bureaucratic Discrimination: The Role of Case Severity, Complexity, and Ambiguity	8
Coordination Capacity and Performance in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance	8
Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis	8
Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program	7
Distributive Justice in Performance Appraisals: How Self-Perceived Talent Status Shapes Negative Emotional Reactions and Counterproductive Work Behaviors	7
Scenario-Based Public Values Promotion and Citizens’ Willingness to Engage in Digital Coproduction	7
Government-Imposed Reorganization and Public Service Turnaround: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Prison Sector in England and Wales	7
Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests	7
Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting	7
Measuring Digital Red Tape: Scale Development and Validation in Chinese Public Organizations	7
How Good County Governance Affects Citizen Volunteering: A Government-Citizen Exchange Model	7
Grading Teacher Performance Appraisal Systems: Understanding the Implications of Student Test Scores and Performance Information Use	7
Advancing Accountability in Unsettled Times: Introduction to a Symposium	7
When Value is Created but There is No Record: An Eyewitness Account of Public Value Creation in a Student Resource Officer Program	7
Factors of Proactive Disclosure of Information at the Local Level	7
A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation	7
The Political Calculus of Chief Executive Officers: The Influence of External and Internal Political Pressures on Turnover and Vacancy	7
Does Transparency Mitigate the Impact of Corruption on Government Fiscal Performance? Evidence from Chinese Municipalities	7
Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19	7
Institutional arrangements of government and municipal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Normativity Versus Strategy in Public Reporting: The Bureaucratic Writing Under Performance Failure	6
Understanding the Role of Legitimacy During Strategic Change in Public Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda	6
Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services	6
The Third Path to Bridging the Enforcement Gap: Leveraging Social Networks as Instruments for Shaping Central-Local Dynamics	6
Future Challenges of Public Administration	6
Does Open Government Data Improve Public Service Quality? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Launch of Open Government Data Platforms in China	6
Accountability and AI: Redundancy, Overlaps and Blind-Spots	6
Policymaking during COVID-19: Preemptive State Interventions and the Factors Influencing Policy Implementation Success	5
Searching near and far? Search distance and performance below historical and social aspirations	5
Antecedents of Shared Leadership in the Public Sector: A Social Network Approach	5
Exploring Board Behavior in a Public Context: Experiences from a Swedish Municipal Corporation	5
Can We Mitigate Covid-19 Related Work Strain Among Civil Servants? Examining the Role of Organizational Commitment, Job Autonomy and Workplace Social Support	5
Working with Winners? Satisfaction with Performance and the Willingness to Coproduce	5
The Determinants of Tax-Based Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of State Governments	5
Resilience Through Collaboration? Emerging Tensions and Paradoxes in Crisis Management	5
Perception–Behavior Mismatch under Position-Based Selective Incentives: Cross-Level Effects of Organizational Performance Incentives in the Public Sector	5
The Influences of Ambidexterity, New Public Management and Innovation on the Public Service Quality of Government Organizations	5
Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea	5
Introduction to Special Issue on Generative AI and Public Administration: Performance, Accountability, and Democratic Governance	5
The impact of collective performance-related pay on street-level bureaucrats’ performance and clients’ outcomes	5
Is Co-production a Silver Bullet? Examining the Effect of Co-production on Organizational Performance	5
Effects of Social Influence on Relationships among Citizens’ Expectation Confirmation, Satisfaction and Acceptance under Different Urban Renewal Compensation Modes	5
Are Highly Public Service–Motivated Individuals Immune to Common Causes of Unethical Behavior? Calibrating the Moderating Role of Group Pressure and Competition for Economic Resources	5
Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy	4
Leadership Mobility and Target Adaptation: Does Previous Target Achievement Matter?	4
Is Auditing Worth the Effort? The Impact of Internal Auditing on Local Fiscal Outcomes	4
Fostering Synergies for Implementing Sustainability Actions in Local Government: The Role of Coordination Commitment and Resource Capacity	4
How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation	4
Public Managers’ Performance Leadership at the Top:Reclaiming Impact and New Research Directions	4
Choice, Continuity, and Competence: A Longitudinal and Multilevel Study of Satisfaction with General Practitioner Service Supply	4
Public Perceptions of Public Organization Performance: Dual Evidence from Explicit and Implicit Measures	4
Do Public Health Service Characteristics Matter? Exploring the Make-or-Buy Decision in Local Health Departments	4
Trapped in the Digital Net: The Consequences of Electronic Monitoring and Digital Overload for Civil Servants	4
New Public Management in the Era of Cutback: Research Performance with Declining Financial Incentives	4
Does External Environmental Uncertainty Encourage Policy Diffusion? Evidence from Chinese Administrative Approval Reform	4
Instrument-Based or Value-Oriented? A Q-Methodology for Local Public Officials’ Perceptions on Digital Government	4
Introduction	4