Dr. DesirƩe van Dun is Associate Professor Organizational Behaviour, Change Management & Consultancy in the High-tech Business & Entrepreneurship department. In 2014, she completed her part-time Ph.D. research (Cum Laude) at the UT. Her dissertation, entitled "Improving Lean Team Performance: Leadership and Workfloor Dynamics," won various awards including the Overijssel PhD Award 2016 and the international 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Operations and Production Management category.

In her research she bridges the fields of Organizational Behaviour, Change Management and Operations Management by studying the interaction between leadership and teams in realising Digital and Green Organizational Transformation. She published her work in top-tier journals like International Journal of Operations & Production Management, European Management Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, and International Review of Industrial & Organizational Psychology.

Per 1 January 2025, Van Dun will start her 3-year term as an Editorial Assistant ofĀ International Journal of Operations & Production Management. In addition, she is Associate Editor at Creativity and Innovation Management and editorial board member at Journal of Supply Chain Management. Moreover, she is an elected board member of the Academy of Management's Operations & Supply Chain Management division board (currently serving as Professional Development Workshop chair 2024) and has organized their doctoral student and junior faculty consortia in 2020 and 2021.

Prior to her academic career, during ten years, Van Dun also worked at House of Performance: a boutique management consultancy firm aimed at improving work floor performance. Here, she specialized in process improvement, strategy execution, change management, team-effectiveness, and (Lean) leadership development in large Dutch organizations. In 2017 she also headed their Research & Development.

Besides academic publishing, teaching, and management consulting, she frequently shares her insights through LinkedIn and AOM, EurOMA or practitioner conference presentations or workshops.

Expertises

  • Psychology

    • Behavior
    • Healthcare
    • Research
  • Social Sciences

    • Work
    • Managers
    • Organizations
    • Employees
  • Computer Science

    • Teams

Organisaties

In her research, Dr. DesirƩe van Dun bridges the fields of Organizational Behaviour, Change Management and Operations Management by studying the interaction between leadership and teams in realising Digital and Green Organizational Transformation.

Particularly, she use high-tech research methods such as video-observation or wearables, and/or uses other types of mixed methods to study the implications of high-tech applications such as Industry 4.0 or 5.0 on the people who work within such contexts.

As a researcher she is co-promotor of multiple (external) PhD students with various international backgrounds and industrial experiences. She has supervised over 100 Master and Bachelor thesis projects. Moreover, she collaborates with researchers from respectable international institutes.

Publicaties

2024

Improving Group Problem-solving through Awareness of Membersā€™ Problem-solving Preferences (2024)International journal of operations & production management (Accepted/In press). Franken, J., van Dun, D. H. & Wilderom, C. P. M.https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-10-2023-0845Toward a Roadmap for Sustainable Lean Adoption in Hospitals: A Delphi Study (2024)BMC health services research, 1-17 (Accepted/In press). van Zyl-Cillie, M. M., van Dun, D. H. & Meijer, H.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11529-4Evolved Leader Behaviours for Adopting Lean and Green in Family Firms: A longitudinal study in Indonesia (2024)Journal of Family Business Management (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Puspani, N. S., van Dun, D. H. & Wilderom, C. P. M.https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-03-2024-0054Building organizational resilience through operational excellence: A systematic literature review and qualitative study (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 31st International Annual EurOMA Conference 2024 (Accepted/In press). Brauel, K., van Dun, D. H. & Hans, E. W.Employee adoption of a connected worker programme: A multi-level, multiple-case study in a global manufacturing firm (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 31st International Annual EurOMA Conference 2024 (Accepted/In press). van Dun, D. H., Bartelink, J., Kumar, M. & Weritz, P.Organisational agility at the team and individual level: A systematic literature review (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 31st International Annual EurOMA Conference 2024 (Accepted/In press). Risgiyanti, R., Weritz, P. & van Dun, D. H.The relationship between lean hospital adoption, learning, and relational coordination: An embedded multiple-case process study (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 31st International Annual EurOMA Conference 2024. van Beers, J. J. C. A. M. & van Dun, D. H.What leader behaviors evoke employee innovative work behavior in Asia? Validation of a new survey scale (2024)Journal of management & organization (Accepted/In press). Tan, A. B. C., van Dun, D. H. & Wilderom, C. P. M.Kaizen event process factors for operational performance improvement: an archival study (2024)Production planning & control (Accepted/In press). Franken, J., van Dun, D. H. & Wilderom, C. P. M.https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2024.2358402Letā€™s talk about it: The impact of nursesā€™ implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care (2024)International journal of operations & production management, 44(5), 1007-1033. Fournier, P.-L., Bahl, L., van Dun, D. H., Johnson, K. & Cadieux, J.https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-11-2022-0752

Onderzoeksprofielen

Dr. DesirĆ©e van Dun teaches in the MSc Business Administration andĀ is one of the main teachers and coordinator of the Master Honours programme Change Leaders and a teacher in the Bachelor Honours trackĀ Processes of Change. She developed theĀ International Management & Consultancy track that is part of theĀ MSc Business Administration.Ā Moreover, she teaches and coordinates the Change Making module of UT's Dutch Higher Education award-winning Transdisciplinary Master Insert program Shaping Responsible Futures. In terms of minors, she teaches in the five-faculty Energy Transition Perspectives minor and the Going Dutch minor. She is also involved in executive educational programmes (Master of Risk Management) and regularly provides workshops for practitioners.

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