Welcome to the website of the Public and Nonprofit Management department!

The interdisciplinary research at the chair lies at the intersection of organizational behavior, human resource management, and organizational change theory.

Specifically, individual research projects focus on employees and volunteers in the context of their (changing) work environment seeking to explain why individuals work for nonprofits, how they react to change, and what leads them to stay.

Since the organizational context significantly impacts how individuals see their work, we also explore why and how nonprofit organizations react to and implement change.

Qualitative and quantitative methods help to capture the complexity of interactions at multiple levels and to incorporate individual, organizational and contextual factors in the design and implementation of our research.