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.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- kanitz@rsm.nl
- Room
- T10-29
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Rouven Kanitz, Katerina Gonzalez, Stefan Berger, Max Reinwald, Hendrik Huettermann & Jennifer Franczak (2023) - Am I the Only One? Consequences of Change Championing (A)symmetry on Group- and Individual-Level Change Outcomes - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44 (7), 1048-1065 - doi: 10.1002/job.2683 - [link]
- Rouven Kanitz, Quy Huy, Julia Backmann & Martin Hoegl (2022) - No change is an island: How interferences between change initiatives evoke inconsistencies that undermine implementation - Academy of Management Journal, 65 (2), 683-710 - doi: 10.5465/amj.2019.0413 - [link]
- Rouven Kanitz & Katerina Gonzalez (2021) - Are we stuck in the predigital age? Embracing Technology-Mediated Change Management in Organizational Change Research - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57 (4), 447-458 - doi: 10.1177/00218863211042896 - [link]
- Quy Huy, Rouven Kanitz, Julia Backmann & Martin Hoegl (2021) - How to reduce the risk of colliding change initiatives - MIT Sloan Management Review - [link]
- Julia Backmann, Rouven Kanitz, Amy Tian, Patrick Hoffmann & Martin Hoegl (2020) - Cultural gap bridging in multinational teams - Journal of International Business Studies, 51, 1283 - [link]
RSM BV
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- NETHERLANDS
- Description
- Teaching / course instructor
Creating Ideas for Business
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- B3T5101
ODCM-SCACO
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
Behavioural Management Science
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3
Changing a Mature Business
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3
Growing a Young Business
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3