Educational Background
Ph.D., Public Administration and Management, University of North Texas, USA
Research Interests
Public Service Planning and Evaluation
Emergency Management
Citizen Participation
Public Management
Honors & Awards
Award of Top University Strategic Alliance Program (2018-2019)
Outstanding Mentor Award, College of Management, National Sun Yat-sen University (2018)
Emerging Scholars Award of Government-Academy Cooperation (2017)
Emerging Scholars Award of Industry-Academy Cooperation (2017)
Best Course Award of National Sun Yat-sen University (2017 Fall; 2018 Spring)
Sun Yat-sen Distinguished Junior Management Scholar Award (2016)
Research Award of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Conference. Dallas, Texas (2014)
David Wachira Distinguished Graduate Student Award, University of North Texas (2014)
National Taipei University Mater Thesis Award (2005)
Professional Training
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training, City of Berkeley (2018)
Data Analysis Training of D-Lab, University of California, Berkeley (2018.08-2019.05)
Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (GLOCOLL), Harvard University (2017.07 & 2018. 01)
New Service Talent Global Program, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation (2016.05)
Certificate of Volunteer Management, University of North Texas (2015)
Certificate of Electronic Business Project Management, Commerce Industrial Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs, June/2002-Augst/2002
Certificate of Electronic Business Process Management, Commerce Industrial Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs, April/ 2002-June/2002
Publication & Research Projects
Journal Articles
Cai, X. & Wu, W.N. (2019). Affordable Housing Policy Development: Public Official Perspective. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis (Forthcoming).
Wu, W. N., Liu, L. Y., & Brough, C. (2019). No time for composting: Subjective time pressure as a barrier to citizen engagement in curbside composting. Waste Management, 91, 99-107.
Hu, W. S. & Wu, W.N. (2019). Local Government Anti-Corruption Efforts: Issues and Policy Suggestions. Personnel Administration,207,23-29. (in Chinese)
Wu, W. N., & Chang, S. M. (2018). Collaboration Mechanisms of Taiwan Nonprofit Organizations in Disaster Relief Efforts: Drawing Lessons from the Wenchuan Earthquake and Typhoon Morakot. Sustainability, 10(11), 4328; doi:10.3390/su10114328.
Wu, W. N., & Tsai, C. C. (2018). What Motivates Citizens to Volunteer in Schools? Determinants in the Local Context. Education and Urban Society, 50(9), 769-792.
Kuo, J.K., Hsieh, C.H., Wu, W.N. (2018). Participatory budgeting in local government: the initial Kaohsiung City experience. City Development, 24,114-127. (in Chinese)
Wu, W.N., & Hsieh, C.H. (2018). Lessons learnt in operation and development of resilient communities: A flood-prone community case in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Journal of Public Affairs Review, 17(1), 89-105. (in Chinese)
Wu, W.N. (2017). Book review: Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards Sustainable Governance Informatisation. Journal of Civil Service, 9(4),139-146. (in Chinese)
Wang, C.W., Chiu, C, Wu, W.N., & Lin, C.J. (2017). The impact of roll over risk and firm’s policy on extreme risk in the Taiwan manufacturing industry. Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policy, 20(03), 1750019.
Cai, X.,Tsai, C.C, & Wu, W.N. (2017). Are they neck and neck in the affordable housing policies? a cross case comparison of three metropolitan cities in China. Sustainability, 9(4), 542; doi: 10.3390/su9040542.
Wu, W.N., Wang, C.W., & Chang, Yi-Bin (2017). Public service users’ behavior, perceived service performance, and citizens’ attitudes toward public service budgets cuts. International Review of Management and Business Research. 6(1), 57-67.
Wu, W. N. (2017). Citizen relationship management system users’ contact channel choices: Digital approach or call approach?. Information, 8(1), 8. doi: 10.3390/info8010008.
Wu, W. N., & Jung, K. (2016). A missing link between citizen participation, satisfaction, and public performance: evidences from the city and county of San Francisco. International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2(4), 392-410.
Wu, W. N., Chang, K., & Tso, Y. E. (2016). If only we knew what we know: factors for mobilizing citizen participation in community-based emergency preparedness. Chinese Public Administration Review, 7(1), 77-109.
Wu, W. N., Chang, S.M., Collins, B.K. (2015). Mobilizing voluntary organizations in Taiwanese emergency response: citizen engagement and local fire branch Heads. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 14(2):45-55.
Jung, K., Park, S. J., Wu, W. N., & Park, H. W. (2015). A webometric approach to policy analysis and management using exponential random graph models. Quality &Quantity, 49(2), 581-598.
Jung, K., Andrew, S. A., & Wu, W. N. (2014). Illuminating the in-house provision of emergency services: A test of organizational capacity hypotheses. International Review of Public Administration, 19(3), 238-251.
Smith, D., Shea, M., & Wu, W. N. (2014). Collaborative resource sharing between public and school libraries. Interlending & Document Supply, 42(4), 159-164.
Grant Project
Principal Investigator. 「Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Development strategies, Public-private Collaboration and Factor Promoting Business Resilience in Disasters.” Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2018.08 – 2021.07).
Principal Investigator. 「The Study of Disaster-Resistant Community: A Typology and Evaluation of Current Community Practices」Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2017.08 – 2018.07).
Principal Investigator. Telecare Service Project Evaluation: A Case of Kaohsiung City.” Sponsored by NSYSU-KMU JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT (2017.01– 2017.12).
Principal Investigator. 「The Study of Municipal Citizen Service System」Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2016.08 – 2017.07).
Co- Investigator. 「2017 Kaohsiung City Participatory Budgeting Project」Sponsored by Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Kaohsiung City Government (2017.04-2018.04)
Co- Investigator. 「2017 Kaohsiung City Satoyama Rural Innovation Project」Sponsored by Agriculture Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government (2017.04-2017.12)
Co- Investigator. 「2016 Kaohsiung City Participatory Budgeting Project」Sponsored by Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Kaohsiung City Government (2016.01-2016.12)
Principal Investigator. 「2016 Rediscovering Old Kaohsiung Project」Sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation (2016.07-2017.07)
Co- Investigator. 「2015 Rediscovering Old Kaohsiung Project」Sponsored by Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation (2015.07-2016.07)