dr. (Rouven) R Kanitz

Biography

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 in 2019. His research focuses on understanding how to make large-scale change processes more effective and sustainable. One main research focus is the human side of change, for example how leaders can better navigate strategic change or how to measure human responses to organizational change. Moreover, he examines how digital technology provides new opportunities and risks for managing change and how such technologies shape the future of change management. Before entering academia, Rouven worked in medical technology industry and as a consultant on change-related topics.