Theme 2: Dynamic Management Capabilities

Flexibility and agility require dynamic management capabilities. The traditional top-down routines designed to manage “business as usual” do not suffice to remain competitive in a turbulent environment. Theme 2 “Dynamic Management Capabilities” investigates the constituent parts of dynamic management, especially the relative importance of:

• profound domain expertise;

• broad management experience regarding various managerial roles and leadership styles;

• significant knowledge absorption capacity and the ability to identify relevant clues in an early stage;

• an entrepreneurial attitude;

• the ability for higher order learning and tries to clarify their effect on social innovation

Theme Leader: Prof. dr. Frans A.J. van den Bosch

Dynamic Management Capabilities

Flexibiltiy and agility require dynamic management capabilities. The traditional top-down routines designed to manage "business as usual" do not suffice to remain competitive in a turbulent environment. This theme investigates the constituent parts of dynamic management, expecially the relative importance of:

• ambidextrous managers, i.e. the ability to perform both exploitation and exploration managerial activities;
• broad management experience regarding various managerial roles and leadership styles;
• profound domain expertise, significant knowledge absorption capacity and the ability to identify relevant clues in an early stage;
• an entrepreneurial attitude;
• the ability for higher order learning and tries to clarify their effect on social innovation.

Theme leader: Prof.dr. Frans Van den Bosch

Reseachers working on this theme:

Prof.dr. Frans Van den Bosch (Coordinator)

Marten Stienstra

Tom Mom

Pepijn van Neerijnen

Michiel Tempelaar

Bernardo Lima

Mariano Heyden

Sebastiaan van Doorn