Jaap Boonstra

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. He is professor of Global Leadership and Cross-cultural Management and chairman of the faculty group Global Leadership in CEMS. Before he worked as a professor of Organizational Change and Learning at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and as Dean 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, organizational and professional development and cross-cultural mergers and alliances. 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 the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and South Africa. 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 and public administration. 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. His most recent books are 'Organizational Change as Collaborative Play' (Boom, 2019) and 'El Cambio como un Juego de Interacción Estratégica' (Together with Francisco Loscos, Profit Editorial, 2019). In 2023 his new book 'Alliances for Sustainable Futures' will be published in English, Spanish and Dutch (Together with Marcos Eguiguren, Edward Elgar, 2023 / Profit Editorial, 2023 / Boom, 2023).

Education

• Doctorado en Psicología. Rijksuniversiteit

Areas of interest

• Transformational leadership
• Organizational change and innovation
• Power dynamics in organizational change
• Sustainable development of organizations
• Organizational culture and leadership