OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Performance & 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Crisis Governance: Insights from COVID-19 Containment in Asia-Pacific	46
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	34
Resource Development and Use in a Nonprofit Collaboration	31
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	24
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	23
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	23
Human Resources in Nonprofits: An Indicator of Managerial Preparedness or Program Needs?	21
The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance	19
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	18
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	17
Local Civic Engagement in Turbulent Times: Trust in Governance, Managerial Quality, Ethnicity, and Education During Polycrises	16
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Revenue Performance? Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	16
Examining the Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Municipal Fiscal Conditions	15
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	14
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	13
Does Prosocial Impact Reduce Performance Data Gaming? The Role of Data Visualizations and Expert-Novice Differences	13
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	13
Truth and Democratic Accountability: Considerations for the Public Sphere, Public Leadership and Performance Management	13
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	12
Accountability at its Finest: Law Enforcement Agencies and Body-Worn Cameras	12
Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health	12
Personality Traits’ Predictors of Outstanding Performance in the Public Sector	12
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	12
The Performance of Public–Private Partnerships: An Evaluation of 15 Years DBFM in Dutch Infrastructure Governance	12

Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View	11
The Impact of Fiscal Openness on Public Spending Technical Efficiency in Developing Countries	11
Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction	11
The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	11
Which Survey Design Can Serve as an Authentic Citizen Satisfaction Measurement? A Cross-Survey Comparison	11
Does It Pay to Pay for Success? Stakeholder Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of PFS Feasibility Studies*	11
Influence of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Behavior in the Korean Public Service Sector: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Change Management and PSM	10
How Policy Instruments Shape Recipients’ Evaluations of Service: The Case of Housing Policy for Military Personnel in Korea	10
Attribution Framing and Citizens’ Perceptions of Bureaucracies, Bureaucrats and Public Servants	10
Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units	10
Consequences of Public Sector Employees’ CSR Perceptions in a Developing Country: Organizational Benefits and Beyond	10
How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience	9
Relationship between Transparency and Efficiency in Municipal Governments: Several Nonparametric Approaches	9
Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations	9
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	8
Short-Term Patronage: Job Uncertainty and Temporary Employment in Politicized Bureaucracies	8
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	8
Who Does the Public Blame for Inequities in Public Service Provision? Examining the Effect of Contracting and Cost Information in a Survey Experiment	8
Adaptability of Governance Arrangements in Response to COVID-19: Effectiveness of Hierarchy Market or Collaborative?	8
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	8
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes	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
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	7
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	7
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	7
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	7
Public Opinion and the Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support	7
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	7
Mask or No Mask for COVID-19? Do the Individual Characteristics of Governors Affect the Adoption of Statewide Public Mask Mandates?	7
Ambidexterity in Cross-Sector Collaborations Involving Public Organizations	7
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	7
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	7
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	7
The Diffusion of Performance-Based Budgeting Reforms: Cross-Provincial Evidence from China	7
The Emotional Backlash of Public Accountability	6
When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector	6
Board Diversity and Monitoring: An Investigation of Gender and Task-Related Diversity	6
Does the Smart City Improve Public Service Delivery? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China	6
Bringing Citizens to the Table: The Impact of Participation Costs on Budget Participation	6
Feeling Good About Doing Good: How the Perceived Authenticity of Organizational Social Responsibility Impacts Affective Organizational Commitment of Local Government Employees	6
Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas	6
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors	6
Efficiency or Equity? How Public Values Shape Bureaucrats' Willingness to Use Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Administrative Burdens	6
Exploring Determinants of Adaptive Capacity: The Nonprofit Sector in the Turbulent COVID-19 Environment in Belarus and Ukraine	6
Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19	5
Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program	5
Crisis Management and National Responses to COVID-19: Global Perspectives	5
Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis	5
Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services	5
Factors of Proactive Disclosure of Information at the Local Level	5

Predicting technological coproduction: An experimental study	5
A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation	5
Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting	5
Accountability and AI: Redundancy, Overlaps and Blind-Spots	5
Institutional arrangements of government and municipal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	5
When Value is Created but There is No Record: An Eyewitness Account of Public Value Creation in a Student Resource Officer Program	5
Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Police Algorithmic Recommender Systems: Findings from Two Experimental Tests	5
What Gets Measured Gets Managed? The Use of Performance Information across Organizational Echelons in the Public Sector	4
Does School District Board Type Affect Fiscal Conditions? Examining Debt Positions	4
Management Capacity, Financial Resources, and Organizational Performance: Evidence from State Transportation Agencies	4
Introduction	4
Is Auditing Worth the Effort? The Impact of Internal Auditing on Local Fiscal Outcomes	4
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	4
Rule Formalization, Bureaucratic Red Tape, and Prosocial Rule Breaking Among Street-Level Bureaucrats: A Citizen-Centered Perspective	4
Reform Stress in the Public Sector? Linking Change Diversity to Turnover Intentions and Presenteeism Among Civil Servants Using a Matching Approach	4
The Determinants of Tax-Based Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of State Governments	4
Grading Teacher Performance Appraisal Systems: Understanding the Implications of Student Test Scores and Performance Information Use	4
Determinants of Gender Budgeting Practices: Evidence from Municipal Governments in South Korea	4
Measuring the Acceptability of Facial Recognition-Enabled Work Surveillance Cameras in the Public and Private Sector	4
Exploring Board Behavior in a Public Context: Experiences from a Swedish Municipal Corporation	4
Leadership Mobility and Target Adaptation: Does Previous Target Achievement Matter?	4
New Public Management in the Era of Cutback: Research Performance with Declining Financial Incentives	4
Can We Mitigate Covid-19 Related Work Strain Among Civil Servants? Examining the Role of Organizational Commitment, Job Autonomy and Workplace Social Support	4
The Influences of Ambidexterity, New Public Management and Innovation on the Public Service Quality of Government Organizations	4
Dynamics of Interagency Networks under Stress in Public Health Emergencies: Evidence from China	4
The Third Path to Bridging the Enforcement Gap: Leveraging Social Networks as Instruments for Shaping Central-Local Dynamics	4
Policymaking during COVID-19: Preemptive State Interventions and the Factors Influencing Policy Implementation Success	4
Understanding the Role of Legitimacy During Strategic Change in Public Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda	4
Managing the Market-Mission Tension: When Does Commercial Revenue Crowd out Charitable Contributions?	4
Accountability and the Quality of Regulatory Judgment Processes. Experimental Research Offering Both Confirmation and Consolation	4
Choice, Continuity, and Competence: A Longitudinal and Multilevel Study of Satisfaction with General Practitioner Service Supply	4
Do Public Health Service Characteristics Matter? Exploring the Make-or-Buy Decision in Local Health Departments	4
The Effect of Performance Information on Actual Budgeting Allocation: The Role of Policy Type	4
Effects of Social Influence on Relationships among Citizens’ Expectation Confirmation, Satisfaction and Acceptance under Different Urban Renewal Compensation Modes	4
Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea	4
Resilience Through Collaboration? Emerging Tensions and Paradoxes in Crisis Management	4
Understanding New Advances in Network Governance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy	3
The Legitimizing Role of Outsider Board Members: The Case of the U.S. Nonprofit Health Care Sector	3
Breaking the Chains of Red Tape: Social Media’s Strategic Role in Fostering Innovation	3
An Old Puzzle and Unprecedented Challenges: Coordination in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US	3
Applying the Loss-Conflict Model of Fiscal Retrenchment: Understanding City Expenditure and Revenue Responses to a Budget Crisis	3
Organizational Performance and Government Resource Allocation: Panel Evidence from Washington State’s Public Programs	3
Correction	3
The Use of Performance Information under Conflict: A Large-N Study	3
Public Participation in Policy Making: Evidence from a Citizen Advisory Panel	3
Strategy Formulation Process and Interorganizational Collaboration	3
Promises and Challenges of Racial Equity Budgeting from the Perspective of Generally Accepted Performance Principles (GAPP)	3
Meta-Analyzing the Trust-Performance Link in Collaboration: Moderating Effects of Conceptual and Contextual Factors	3
Local Government Responses to State Fiscal Controls: The Effects of Fiscal Preemptions on the Methods of Local Service Delivery	3
Cognition, Collective Action, and COVID-19: Managing Crises in Real Time	3
Autonomy is Taken, Not Given. The Role of Public Leader Networking in Shaping Perceived Managerial Autonomy	3
How Institutional Pressures Influence the Blame Avoidance Behavior of Civil Servants in China	3
Correction	3
Balancing Managerialism and Autonomy: A Panel Study of the Link Between Managerial Autonomy, Performance Goals, and Organizational Performance	3
How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation	3
How Does Policy Implementation Affect the Sustainability of Public–Private Partnership Projects? A Stakeholder-Based Framework	3
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	3
Exploring the Shift from Output Measures to Outcome Measures of Service Delivery: Insights from Municipal Research	3
Performance Measurement System Design as Link Between Strategy Formulation and Performance Information Use in Public Sector Organizations	3
Role of Managerial and Political Accountability in Improving Performance of Local Governments	3
The Checks of the Council: Local Horizontal Accountability’s Effects on Municipal Corruption in Latin America	3
Optimal Turnover Rates and Performance in Public Organizations: Theoretical Expectations	3