Table A2 Sample articles* # Year...

Table A2

Sample articles*

#	Year	Author(s)	Journal	Type of Paper	Adopted theory	Data collection	Study setting	Data analysis	Dimension of the micro-municipality
1	2023	Sofyani, H., Yaya, R. and Saleh, Z.	Financial Accountability and Management	Empirical Quantitative	Stakeholder theory; Legitimacy theory	Survey	4 micro-municipalities in Indonesia	Partial Least Square	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
2	2023	Fatimah, H., Suryadi, B. and Jamaluddin, J.	International Journal of Social Science Research and Review	Empirical Qualitative	Legal studies	Interviews, observation, and secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
3	2023	Annahar, N., Widianingsih, I., Muhtar, E.A. and Paskarina, C.	Sustainability	Empirical Qualitative	Inclusive governance	Observation, interviews, and secondary data	4 micro-municipalities in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
4	2023	Tang, J., Gao, H., Song, X. and Xu, H.	Habitat International	Empirical Quantitative	Cumulative causation	Secondary data	Panel data of micro-municipalities in 30 provinces (municipalities or autonomous regions) in China	Regression analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
5	2023	Liu, P. and Han, A.	Rural Sociology	Empirical Quantitative	Public leadership	Questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews	19 micro-municipalities in Shanghai	Probit model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
6	2023	Zaitul, Z., Ilona, D. and Novianti, N.	Administrative Sciences	Empirical Quantitative	Good governance	Questionnaire	8 tourist destination micro-municipalities in Pariaman City	Structural Equation Model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
7	2022	Lara-Rubio, A., Navarro-Galera, D., Buendía-Carrillo, D. and Gomez-Miranda, M.E.	Cities	Empirical quantitative	Institutional theory; Stakeholder theory	Archivial data	6,456 Spanish administrations	Logistic regression model	≤ 5,000
8	2022	Zagrapan, J. and Spáč, P.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Quantitative	Proactive transparency	Secondary data	2,796 micro-municipalities in Slovakia	Logit regression	<1,000
9	2022	Sonbay, Y.Y., Tjahjadi, B. and Narsa, I.M.	International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management	Empirical Qualitative	Hofstede cultural theory	Secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Observation	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
10	2022	Zhang, Q., Ye, C. and Duan, J.	Journal of Rural Studies	Empirical Qualitative	Collaborative governance	Non-participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups	1 micro-municipality in China	Historical socio-spatial analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
11	2022	Liu, J., Wang, X. and Hou, Y.	SAGE Open	Empirical Quantitative	Public service motivation theory	Survey	118 micro-municipalities in China	Regression analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
12	2022	Xiao, C., Zhou, J., Shen, X., Cullen, J., Dobson, S., Meng, F. and Wang, X.	Sustainability	Mixed	Good governance	Observation and interviews	2 micro-municipalities in China	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
13	2021	Vitálišová, K., Murray-Svidroňová, M. and Jakuš-Muthová, N.	Cities	Empirical - Mixed	Stakeholder theory	Survey data, archivial data, semi-structured interviews, Delphi	436 local self-governments in Slovakia	Nonparametric binomial test, a chi square test, a thematic organisation of qualitative data	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
14	2021	Benito, B., Guillamón, M. D. and Ríos, A.M.	Cities	Empirical Quantitative	–	Database on municipal transparency	118 Spanish micro-municipalities	Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
15	2021	Jayawarsa, A. K., Purnami, A. S. and Saputra, K.A.K.	International Journal of Business, Economics and Law	Empirical Qualitative	Good governance	Interview	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
16	2021	Sara, I. M. and Saputra, K.A.K.	International Journal of Business, Economics and Law	Empirical Qualitative	Good governance	Secondary Data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
17	2021	Pera, A.	Global Jurist	Empirical Qualitative	Legal studies	Secondary Data	3 micro-municipalities in Italy	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
18	2021	Kondratyev, M.V. and Fadeeva, O.P.	Regional Research of Russia	Empirical Qualitative	New institutional economic theory	Secondary data	4 micro-municipalities in Russia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
19	2020	Zhang, P. and Holzer, M.	American Review of Public Administration	Empirical Quantitative	Local government studies	Survey and secondary data	232 micro-municipalities in New York	Content analysis; descriptive statistics	≤ 500 persons, but not containing more than 5 square miles
20	2020	Pamungkas, I. D., Wahyudi, S. and Achmad, T.	International Journal of Environmental Science	Empirical Qualitative	Whistleblowing studies	Interview	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Content analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
21	2019	Zhang, Y., Long, H., Ma, L., Tu, S., Liao, L., Chen, K. and Xu, Z.	Cities	Mixed	Adaptive resilience theory	Semi-structured interview, survey, participant observation, secondary data	64 face-to-face in-depth interviews and 526 questionnaires in a Chinese micro-municipality	Factor analysis	3,000 inhabitants
22	2019	Beeri, I., Uster, A, and Vigoda-Gadot, E.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Quantitative	–	Archivial data, Survey	Two separate but complementary samples at both the individual and institutional level (n = 1,978 and n = 45, respectively) Data from Israeli administrators	Multiple hierarchical regression analysis	The individual-level datasets come from various local municipalities (non emerge la dimensione delle local municipalities citate) The respondents came from 45 Israeli local authorities
23	2018	Giacomini, D., Sancino, A. and Simonetto, A.	International Journal of Public Sector Management	Empirical Quantitative	Studies on public networks	Survey	280 micro-municipalities in Italy	Logistic regression model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
24	2019	Hidayat, R., Hendra, H. and Iptidaiyah, M.	Journal of Governance	Empirical Qualitative	Public administration studies	Observation, interviews, and secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
25	2018	Yi, H., Suo, L., Shen, R., Zhang, J., Ramaswami, A. and Feiock, R.C.	Public Administration Review	Empirical Quantitative	Institutional Collective Action (ICA)	Archivial data, media reports	564 interlocal agreements on environmental sustainability from micro-municipalities in four regions in China	Content analysis of media reports and Regression analysis (Ordinal logistic regression model)	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
26	2016	Steenbergen, D.J.	Human Ecology	Empirical Qualitative	Public leadership	Ethnographic research	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
27	2015	Previtali, P.	Public Administration Quarterly	Empirical Qualitative	Collaborative public management	Interviews	136 Italian micro-municipalities	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
28	2014	Kasymova, J.T. and Schachter, H.L.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Qualitative	Theory of local public talk	Interview, secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Kyrgyzstan	Thematic analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
29	2011	Dougherty, G.W. and Easton, J.E.	American Review of Public Administration	Empirical Quantitative	New public service	Survey	274 municipalities in U.S. (73% of respondents of communities with 5,000 or fewer residents)	Ordinary Least Squares; Correlations	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
30	2007	Tan, Q. and Qiushui, X.	Journal of Contemporary China	Empirical Quantitative	Studies on public elections	Survey	1,299 residents and 204 micro-municipality cadres in China	Descriptive statistics	≤ 5,000 inhabitants

#	Year	Author(s)	Journal	Type of Paper	Adopted theory	Data collection	Study setting	Data analysis	Dimension of the micro-municipality
1	2023	Sofyani, H., Yaya, R. and Saleh, Z.	Financial Accountability and Management	Empirical Quantitative	Stakeholder theory; Legitimacy theory	Survey	4 micro-municipalities in Indonesia	Partial Least Square	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
2	2023	Fatimah, H., Suryadi, B. and Jamaluddin, J.	International Journal of Social Science Research and Review	Empirical Qualitative	Legal studies	Interviews, observation, and secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
3	2023	Annahar, N., Widianingsih, I., Muhtar, E.A. and Paskarina, C.	Sustainability	Empirical Qualitative	Inclusive governance	Observation, interviews, and secondary data	4 micro-municipalities in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
4	2023	Tang, J., Gao, H., Song, X. and Xu, H.	Habitat International	Empirical Quantitative	Cumulative causation	Secondary data	Panel data of micro-municipalities in 30 provinces (municipalities or autonomous regions) in China	Regression analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
5	2023	Liu, P. and Han, A.	Rural Sociology	Empirical Quantitative	Public leadership	Questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews	19 micro-municipalities in Shanghai	Probit model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
6	2023	Zaitul, Z., Ilona, D. and Novianti, N.	Administrative Sciences	Empirical Quantitative	Good governance	Questionnaire	8 tourist destination micro-municipalities in Pariaman City	Structural Equation Model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
7	2022	Lara-Rubio, A., Navarro-Galera, D., Buendía-Carrillo, D. and Gomez-Miranda, M.E.	Cities	Empirical quantitative	Institutional theory; Stakeholder theory	Archivial data	6,456 Spanish administrations	Logistic regression model	≤ 5,000
8	2022	Zagrapan, J. and Spáč, P.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Quantitative	Proactive transparency	Secondary data	2,796 micro-municipalities in Slovakia	Logit regression	<1,000
9	2022	Sonbay, Y.Y., Tjahjadi, B. and Narsa, I.M.	International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management	Empirical Qualitative	Hofstede cultural theory	Secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Observation	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
10	2022	Zhang, Q., Ye, C. and Duan, J.	Journal of Rural Studies	Empirical Qualitative	Collaborative governance	Non-participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups	1 micro-municipality in China	Historical socio-spatial analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
11	2022	Liu, J., Wang, X. and Hou, Y.	SAGE Open	Empirical Quantitative	Public service motivation theory	Survey	118 micro-municipalities in China	Regression analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
12	2022	Xiao, C., Zhou, J., Shen, X., Cullen, J., Dobson, S., Meng, F. and Wang, X.	Sustainability	Mixed	Good governance	Observation and interviews	2 micro-municipalities in China	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
13	2021	Vitálišová, K., Murray-Svidroňová, M. and Jakuš-Muthová, N.	Cities	Empirical - Mixed	Stakeholder theory	Survey data, archivial data, semi-structured interviews, Delphi	436 local self-governments in Slovakia	Nonparametric binomial test, a chi square test, a thematic organisation of qualitative data	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
14	2021	Benito, B., Guillamón, M. D. and Ríos, A.M.	Cities	Empirical Quantitative	–	Database on municipal transparency	118 Spanish micro-municipalities	OrdinaryLeast Squares (OLS)	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
15	2021	Jayawarsa, A. K., Purnami, A. S. and Saputra, K.A.K.	International Journal of Business, Economics and Law	Empirical Qualitative	Good governance	Interview	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
16	2021	Sara, I. M. and Saputra, K.A.K.	International Journal of Business, Economics and Law	Empirical Qualitative	Good governance	Secondary Data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
17	2021	Pera, A.	Global Jurist	Empirical Qualitative	Legal studies	Secondary Data	3 micro-municipalities in Italy	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
18	2021	Kondratyev, M.V. and Fadeeva, O.P.	Regional Research of Russia	Empirical Qualitative	New institutional economic theory	Secondary data	4 micro-municipalities in Russia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
19	2020	Zhang, P. and Holzer, M.	American Review of Public Administration	EmpiricalQuantitative	Local government studies	Survey and secondary data	232 micro-municipalities in New York	Content analysis; descriptive statistics	≤ 500 persons, but not containing more than 5 square miles
20	2020	Pamungkas, I. D., Wahyudi, S. and Achmad, T.	International Journal of Environmental Science	Empirical Qualitative	Whistleblowing studies	Interview	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Content analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
21	2019	Zhang, Y., Long, H., Ma, L., Tu, S., Liao, L., Chen, K. and Xu, Z.	Cities	Mixed	Adaptive resilience theory	Semi-structured interview, survey, participant observation, secondary data	64 face-to-face in-depth interviews and 526 questionnaires in a Chinese micro-municipality	Factor analysis	3,000 inhabitants
22	2019	Beeri, I., Uster, A, and Vigoda-Gadot, E.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Quantitative	–	Archivial data, Survey	Two separate but complementary samples at both the individual and institutional level (n = 1,978 and n = 45, respectively)Data from Israeli administrators	Multiple hierarchical regression analysis	The individual-level datasets come from various local municipalities (non emerge la dimensione delle local municipalities citate)The respondents came from 45 Israeli local authorities
23	2018	Giacomini, D., Sancino, A. and Simonetto, A.	International Journal of Public Sector Management	Empirical Quantitative	Studies on public networks	Survey	280 micro-municipalities in Italy	Logistic regression model	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
24	2019	Hidayat, R., Hendra, H. and Iptidaiyah, M.	Journal of Governance	Empirical Qualitative	Public administration studies	Observation, interviews, and secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
25	2018	Yi, H., Suo, L., Shen, R., Zhang, J., Ramaswami, A. and Feiock, R.C.	Public Administration Review	Empirical Quantitative	Institutional Collective Action (ICA)	Archivial data, media reports	564 interlocal agreements on environmental sustainability from micro-municipalities in four regions in China	Content analysis of media reports and Regression analysis (Ordinal logistic regression model)	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
26	2016	Steenbergen, D.J.	Human Ecology	Empirical Qualitative	Public leadership	Ethnographic research	1 micro-municipality in Indonesia	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
27	2015	Previtali, P.	Public Administration Quarterly	Empirical Qualitative	Collaborative public management	Interviews	136 Italian micro-municipalities	Descriptive approach	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
28	2014	Kasymova, J.T. and Schachter, H.L.	Public Performance and Management Review	Empirical Qualitative	Theory of local public talk	Interview, secondary data	1 micro-municipality in Kyrgyzstan	Thematic analysis	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
29	2011	Dougherty, G.W. and Easton, J.E.	American Review of Public Administration	Empirical Quantitative	New public service	Survey	274 municipalities in U.S. (73% of respondents of communities with 5,000 or fewer residents)	Ordinary Least Squares; Correlations	≤ 5,000 inhabitants
30	2007	Tan, Q. and Qiushui, X.	Journal of Contemporary China	Empirical Quantitative	Studies on public elections	Survey	1,299 residents and 204 micro-municipality cadres in China	Descriptive statistics	≤ 5,000 inhabitants

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