dr. R (Rouven) Kanitz

Rouven Kanitz is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Change at the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. Before entering academia, Rouven worked in medical technology industry and for a management consultant firm on strategic change projects. His research focuses on helping organizations to navigate change processes in more effective and sustainable ways. One main research focus is the human side of change, for example how leaders can better navigate change through specific interventions or how to work with human responses to organizational change such as resistance. Moreover, he examines how digital technology provides new opportunities and risks for managing change and how such technologies shape the future of change management. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, or the Journal of International Business Studies.