Visiting Professor, Department of People Management and Organisation at
Esade
URL Visiting Professor
Biography
Jaap Boonstra is a professor of 'Organizational Dynamics and Leadership' at Esade
Business School in Barcelona Spain, professor of 'Organizational Change' at Rotterdam
School of Management of the Erasmus university, and a senior lecturer in 'Public Administration'
at the Netherlands Institute of Governance in The Hague. Before he worked as a professor
of 'Global Leadership' at CEMS, The Global Alliance in Management Education, and as
a professor of 'Organizational Change and Learning' at the University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands. He also worked as Dean and Academic Director of Sioo, Inter-university
Center for Organizational Change and Learning The Netherlands. At ESADE Business School,
Jaap is involved in education on strategic and cultural change in organizations, transformational
leadership, and organizational and professional development. His research focuses
on transformational leadership, success factors to organizational change and innovation,
power dynamics in organizations, cross-cultural management and organizational change
and development.As an independent consultant he is involved in change processes in
international business firms and organizational networks. In addition, he was a member
of supervisory and non-executive boards in financial services, the service industry,
and public institutes in telecommunications, safety and liveability, social housing,
and in health and youth care.Jaap has published more than twenty books and three hundred
articles on technological and organizational innovation, management of organizational
change, politics in organizations, strategic decision-making and transformational
change in production firms, the service sector, public administration and global values-driven
alliances. His international handbook 'Dynamics of Organizational Change and Learning'
was awarded with the best contribution to organizational science by the Dutch association
of management consultants. His book 'Organizational Change and Leadership in Organizations'
was nominated for Management book of the year. His book 'Change Management Adventures'
is reviewed as the most approachable and inspiring books about change management.
In 2019 he published 'Organizational Change as Collaborative Play' Boom, 2019 and
'El Cambio como un Juego de Interacción Estratégica' Together with Francisco Loscos,
Profit Editorial, 2019. His most recent book 'Alliances for Sustainable Futures' is
published in English, Spanish and Dutch with Marcos Eguiguren as co-author Edward
Elgar, 2023 / Profit Editorial, 2023 / Boom, 2023.Contribution to coursesESADE, EMBA:
Discovering dynamics of transformational change.NSOB, MPA: Transformational LeadershipNSOB,
IML: Change Management in the Public SectorRSM, EUR: Organizational Change and Development
Contact details
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