
Current Grants
Research Grants Council Hong Kong, General Research Fund, Organizational Design and Public Management: Extending the Experimental Methods Agenda PI (2017-2019)—HK$790,492
City University of Hong Kong, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Behavioural Public Services Management and Policy: Network Building at the Laboratory for Public Management and Policy PI (2016-17)—HK$141,700.
Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (HKSARG), The ‘Citizen Satisfaction Assessment Tool’: Applying Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory to Public Services in Hong Kong PI (2016-17)—HK$961,400
City University of Hong Kong, Campus Sustainability Fund, Motivating Waste Reduction and Recycling in the University Workplace: An Experimental Evaluation of Negatively-framed Collective Incentives and Group-level Feedback PI (2016-2017)—HK$200,000
Cardiff University, School of Business, Innovative Delivery of Public Services: Management Innovation in Local Government Co-I (2016-2018)—£80,000
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, A Comprehensive Test of Policy Innovation Theses: The Taiwanese Bookstart Programme PI (2015-2017)—US$70,000
Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (HKSARG), Performance Information Use: Experiments on Performance Dimensions, Communication and Data Sources in Education and Solid Waste Recycling PI (2015-16)—HK$597,264
Recent publications
Walker, Richard M., Jiyao Chen and Deepa Aravind. 2015. ‘Management Innovation and Firm Performance: An Integration of Research Findings’, European Management Journal 33, 5, 407-422.
Walker, Richard M., Claudia Avellaneda and Frances Stokes Berry. 2015. ‘Limits on Innovativeness in Local Government: Examining Capacity, Complexity and Dynamism in Organizational Task Environments’, Public Administration 93, 3, 663-683.
Walker, Richard M. and Rhys Andrews. 2015. ‘Local Government Management and Performance: A Review of Evidence’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25, 1, 101-33.
Walker, Richard M. 2014. ‘Internal and External Antecedents of Process Innovation in Local Government: A Review and Extension’, Public Management Review 16, 1, 21-44.
Walker, Richard M. 2013. ‘Strategic Management and Performance in Public Organizations: Findings from the Miles and Snow Framework’, Public Administration Review, 73, 5, 675-685.
Brewer, Gene A. and Richard M. Walker. 2013. ‘Personnel Constraints in Public Organizations: A Study of Intraorganizational Variation and Performance’, Public Administration Review 73, 1, 121-131.
Andrews, Rhys, George A. Boyne, Jennifer Law and Richard M. Walker. 2012. Strategic Management and Public Service Performance. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Walker, Richard M., Fariborz Damanpour, Carlos Alberto Devece. 2011. ‘Management Innovation and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Effect of Performance Management’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21, 2, 367-86.
Walker, Richard M., Gene A. Brewer, George A. Boyne, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2011. ‘Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: New Public Management Gone Mad?’, Public Administration Review 71, 5, 707-717.