Our vision is to provide highly effective expertise to organizations and decision-makers through outstanding research. In doing so, we pay particular attention to current geopolitical, technological, and societal challenges. We strive to understand how organizational change unfolds at the micro, meso, and macro levels and how it influences human behavior and group dynamics within organizations.

Leading. Strategic Change.

In line with our guiding principle, which links the inseparably connected and interrelated concepts of Leading.Change and Strategic.Change, our activities focus on research, teaching, and the transfer of knowledge to practice.

Leading.Change

Technological and organizational change presents leaders with the challenge of actively managing complexity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands. They must develop and apply new skills, guide organizational transformation processes, and effectively integrate technologies into existing structures.

This involves balancing tensions such as old vs. new, efficiency vs. flexibility, and routine vs. innovation. Ambidextrous leadership combines a focus on performance with opportunities for learning and development.

Through our Leading.Change research initiative, we investigate how leaders can successfully shape (technological) change processes, convey meaning, and empower teams to actively support change and develop organizations in a way that ensur.#es their future viability.

Strategic.Change

Dynamic technological and competitive environments require organizations to continuously develop their resources, competencies, business models, products, and processes. This involves effectively leveraging existing capabilities while simultaneously building and deploying new ones.

Through Strategic.Change, we examine how organizations develop their capacity for change, enable innovation, and strategically renew their competency base. The focus is on capability development, reconfiguration and redeployment, ambidexterity, and dynamic capabilities as key approaches to making organizations adaptable and future-ready in the long term.