OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Performance & Management Review is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Human Resources in Nonprofits: An Indicator of Managerial Preparedness or Program Needs?	36
Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Crisis Governance: Insights from COVID-19 Containment in Asia-Pacific	27
Resource Development and Use in a Nonprofit Collaboration	26
Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model	25
Open for Economic Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Factors Related to State Reopening Policies in a Federal Policy Vacuum	24
Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities	23
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	21
Do Smart Cities Technologies Contribute to Revenue Performance? Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	20
Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming	19
Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders	18
Local Civic Engagement in Turbulent Times: Trust in Governance, Managerial Quality, Ethnicity, and Education During Polycrises	17
The Use of Autonomous Teams for Individual Vitality and Team Innovation: A 2-1-2 Multilevel Mediation Model in the Public Context	16
Truth and Democratic Accountability: Considerations for the Public Sphere, Public Leadership and Performance Management	15
The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China	15
Exploring the Roles of Informational and Emotional Language in Online Government Interactions to Promote Citizens’ Continuous Participation	15
Examining the Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Municipal Fiscal Conditions	15
Career Incentives and Short-Termism Among Local Leaders	15
Teleworking and Clients’ Perception of Frontline Services: Evidence in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The Performance of Public–Private Partnerships: An Evaluation of 15 Years DBFM in Dutch Infrastructure Governance	14
Institutional Pressures, Policy Attention, and e-Government Service Capability: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-Level Cities	14
Does Contracting Out Serve the Public Value in the Digital Era? Provider Choice of Local Governments in E-Government Service Delivery	14
The Impact of Fiscal Openness on Public Spending Technical Efficiency in Developing Countries	13
Attribution Framing and Citizens’ Perceptions of Bureaucracies, Bureaucrats and Public Servants	12
Managerial Networking, Community Social Capital, and Performance Improvement in Public Organizations	12

The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations	12
Does It Pay to Pay for Success? Stakeholder Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of PFS Feasibility Studies*	12
Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units	12
Which Survey Design Can Serve as an Authentic Citizen Satisfaction Measurement? A Cross-Survey Comparison	12
Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction	12
Consequences of Public Sector Employees’ CSR Perceptions in a Developing Country: Organizational Benefits and Beyond	11
Influence of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Behavior in the Korean Public Service Sector: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Change Management and PSM	11
Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health	11
Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View	11
How Policy Instruments Shape Recipients’ Evaluations of Service: The Case of Housing Policy for Military Personnel in Korea	11
Relationship between Transparency and Efficiency in Municipal Governments: Several Nonparametric Approaches	10
A Clarity Conundrum: Impacts of Recipient Perspectives and Eligibility Language on Perceptions of Safety Net Access for System-Involved Populations	10
Conflict Research in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review	10
How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience	10
Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations	9
Framing the COVID-19 Crisis: Analyzing State Media Strategies in China Using Deep Learning Models	9
COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden	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
The Perspective of Non-Teleworkers on the Impacts of Coworkers’ Telework: Assessing Individual and Organizational Outcomes	9
Short-Term Patronage: Job Uncertainty and Temporary Employment in Politicized Bureaucracies	9
Is Active Representation of People With Disabilities Possible in Türkiye? A Qualitative Research on Factors Preventing the Active Representation of Disabled Bureaucrats and Solutions	9
Adaptability of Governance Arrangements in Response to COVID-19: Effectiveness of Hierarchy Market or Collaborative?	9
Promoting Public Support For Significant Policy Changes Through Persuasive Messaging: Evidence From China’s COVID-19 Control Policy	9
Understanding the Correlates of Fear among Public Employees Working in Extreme Conditions: Evidence from Chinese Frontline Customs Officers	9
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	8
Why Public Service Motivated Government Employees Experience Varying Job Satisfaction Levels Across Countries: A Meta-analysis Emphasizing Cultural Dimensions	8
Applying Signal Detection in Police Fatal Encounters with Racial Minorities	8
Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement	8
Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea	8
Enhancing Public Organizational Performance in Vietnam: The Role of Top Management Support, Performance Measurement Systems, and Financial Autonomy	8
Bringing Citizens to the Table: The Impact of Participation Costs on Budget Participation	7
Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed?	7
When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector	7
The Emotional Backlash of Public Accountability	7
Efficiency or Equity? How Public Values Shape Bureaucrats' Willingness to Use Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Administrative Burdens	7
A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen?	7
The Diffusion of Performance-Based Budgeting Reforms: Cross-Provincial Evidence from China	7
Public Opinion and the Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support	7
Does the Smart City Improve Public Service Delivery? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China	7
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors	7
Do Managers Make Use of Increased Autonomy? Evidence from Large Scale Organizational Reform	7
Mask or No Mask for COVID-19? Do the Individual Characteristics of Governors Affect the Adoption of Statewide Public Mask Mandates?	7
Understanding the Evolving International Collaborative Governance for Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeast Asia: An Institutional Collective Action Perspective	7
Beyond tradeoffs: How Do Local Governments Synergize Multiple Complementary Goals?	7