dr. D.H. van Dun (Desirée)

Dr. Desirée 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 of 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.

Expertise

• Psychology

  • Behavior
  • Healthcare
  • Research

• Social Sciences

  • Work
  • Managers
  • Organizations
  • Employees

• Computer Science

  • Teams

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In her research, Dr. Desirée 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.

Publications

Research profiles

Dr. Desirée van Dun teaches in the MSc Business Administration and is one of the main teachers and coordinator of the Master Honours programme Change Leaders and a teacher in the Bachelor Honours track Processes of Change. She developed the International Management & Consultancy track that is part of the MSc Business Administration. 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.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

In the press

Selected Online Publications

2018     MT.nl. This is how you become a lean leader [Zó word je een lean leider]. https://www.mt.nl/management/continu-verbeteren/zo-word-lean-leider/549703

2017     Skipr.nl. Manager, include yourself if you want to create a better organisation [Manager, kijk ook naar jezelf als je betere organisatie wil. https://www.skipr.nl/blogs/id3029-manager-kijk-ook-naar-jezelf-als-je-betere-organisatie-wil.html

2016     Skipr.nl. Leadership in Transition [Leiderschap in Transitie]. https://www.skipr.nl/blogs/id2637-leiderschap-in-transitie.html

2013     Van Dun, D. H. & Bruins Slot, B. Whitepaper My Team is a Top Team [Dutch version also available: “Mijn Team is Top”]. http://www.houseofperformance.nl/wp-content/uploads/WP-mijn-team-is-top-def.pdf

2013     ManagersOnline.nl. Successful Organizational Strategy Requires Behavioral Change [Succesvolle organisatiestrategie vraagt gedragsverandering]. http://www.managersonline.nl/nieuws/13184/succesvolle-organisatiestrategie-vraagt-gedragsverandering-.html

Selected YouTube Videos

2015     PhD Dissertation Chapter I: Lean Leaders and their Teams: Introduction [Lean leiders en hun teams: Introductie] http://tinyurl.com/pcyq63x

2015     PhD Dissertation Chapter II: Lean Leadership: Effective Middle Managers [Lean leiderschap: Effectieve middenmanagers] http://tinyurl.com/njvr2nc

2015     PhD Dissertation Chapter III: Lean Teams: Dynamics and Enablers of Continuous Improvement [Lean teams: Gedrag en randvoorwaarden voor continu verbeteren] http://tinyurl.com/oghkrr6

2015     PhD Dissertation Chapter IV: Lean Teams: Role of Higher-Level Management [Lean teams: Rol van hoger management] http://tinyurl.com/olmy6zd

2015     PhD Dissertation Chapter V: Lean Leadership: Higher Team Effectiveness through Lean Leaders’ Values [Lean leiderschap: Effectievere teams door waarden van lean leiders] http://tinyurl.com/pu5dtgj

News on utwente.nl

https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2016/4/338361/desiree-van-dun-wins-international-dissertation-award

https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2015/10/29772/managers-do-not-have-to-be-a-waste

https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2015/8/213281/ut-phd-candidate-receives-award-for-best-management-paper

Address

University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 2414
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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