Dr. (Rouven) Kanitz

Rouven Kanitz
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Associate Member ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2022

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.

Publications

  • Academic (11)
    • Kukula, A., Reinwald, M., Kanitz, R., & Hoegl, M. (2024). Bridging the Past, or Breaking From It? Leader Continuity Rhetoric and Nontarget Employee Diversity Initiative Support. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241281466

    • Gündemir, S., Kanitz, R., Rink, F., Hoever, I., & Slepian, M. (2024). Beneath the surface: Resistance to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in organizations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60, Article 101922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101922

    • Gonzalez, K., Kanitz, R., & Briker, R. (2024). “AI Can’t Steal My Soul”: In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is Paramount for the Craft of Managing Change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 60(4), 589-602. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863241279916

    • Hagl, C., Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., & Hoegl, M. (2024). Change management interventions: Taking stock and moving forward. Human Resource Management Review, 34(1), Article 101000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2023.101000

    • Kanitz, R., Reinwald, M., Gonzalez, K., Burmeister, A., Song, Y., & Hoegl, M. (2024). Supportive, resistant, or both? A person-centric view on employee responses to diversity initiatives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(10), 1635-1658. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001190

    • Straatmann, T., Kanitz, R., Stride, C., Hofmann, Y. E., & Steinberg, U. (2023). Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 60(3), 389-428. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863231209835

    • Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., Berger, S., Reinwald, M., Huettermann, H., & Franczak, J. (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. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2683

    • Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., Briker, R., & Straatmann, T. (2023). Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 59(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863231168974

    • Kanitz, R., Huy, Q., Backmann, J., & Hoegl, M. (2022). No change is an island: How interferences between change initiatives evoke inconsistencies that undermine implementation. Academy of Management Journal, 65(2), 683-710. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0413

    • Kanitz, R., & Gonzalez, K. (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. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863211042896

    • Backmann, J., Kanitz, R., Tian, A., Hoffmann, P., & Hoegl, M. (2020). Cultural gap bridging in multinational teams. Journal of International Business Studies, 51, 1283. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41267-020-00310-4

  • Professional (1)
PhD in Management: Organization and Management Theory
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Ejian Zhou
  • Time frame: 2024 -

Address

Visiting address

Office: T10-29
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands