JProf. Dr. Marlene Walk

JProf. Dr. Marlene Walk received her PhD from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She then worked as an Assistant Professor at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Since January 1, 2023, she is a W1 Professor in Public and Nonprofit Management at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. Marlene Walk holds a Margarete von Wrangell Junior Professorship funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg. Prior to her doctorate, Marlene Walk completed a degree in Social Work at HAWK Hildesheim and a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Further information can be found here.

Main focus in teaching and research

• organizational change

• organizational behavior

• Human Resource Management

Recent publications

• Melville-Holder, J.; Stewart, A.J.; Kuenzi, K.; Walk, M.; Russell, D.; & McGovern, S. (online first):
  A worthy investment? Investigating alumni perceptions of nonprofit degrees, Teaching Public
  Administration.
• Levine Daniel, J., Curley, C., & Walk, M. (online first): Message (In)Congruence: Tweeting While
  Competing for Donations, Communication and the Public.
• Walk, M., Stewart, A., & Kuenzi, K. (online first): Investigating Turnover Intentions during
  Organizational Change - The Role of Negative Appraisals, Psychological Contract Violations, and
  Resistance to Change, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
• Kuenzi, K.; Stewart, M. & Walk, M. (2024): Pause don't panic: Exploring COVID-19 as critical
  incident for nonprofit workers, Review of Public Personnel Administration 44(2), 353-376.

A full list of publications can be found here.