Dr. Frans M. van Eijnatten
Retired Associate Professor of Organizational Renewal and Complexity
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS)
 | F.M.v.Eijnatten@ziggo.nl |
From 1988 till his retirement in 2016 Dr. Frans M. van Eijnatten (1951) was an Associate Professor of Organizational Renewal and Complexity at the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. He has a bachelor and master degree in Organizational Psychology from Tilburg University (1974-1978) and a Ph.D. from Radboud University Nijmegen (1985), dissertation subject: Socio-Technical Task Analyses conducted at Philips Industries.
He was a member of the Research School for Operations Management and Logistics (BETA), for 20 years, and was engaged in research in the domains of human performance management, chaos and complexity in management, and organizational development and change. Some research topics were: Integral Organizational Renewal, Intensive Work, Work/ Life Balance, Intelligent Manufacturing and Participative Simulation, Workspace Design, Workflow Management Systems, Collaborative Network-ed Organizations, Chaordic Systems Thinking, Learning Organization, and Sustainable Work.
His original research interest was in Socio-Technical Systems Design, an ambition he pursued by initiating and co-ordinating Ph.D. design-oriented action research projects in R&D and information systems design. He produced several English- language reviews on the subject as well as a compre-hensive bibliography of the paradigm.
Dr. Van Eijnatten has explored the implications of Chaos and Complexity theories for Socio-Tech-nical Systems and Organizational Renewal (i.e., ‘Chaordic Systems Thinking’ – CST). He co-edited two guest issues about CST for the Journal of Organizational Change Management and The Learning Organization, and published an overview of Chaos and Complexity in Organization and Management in the Revue Sciences de Gestion. He was founder of the European Chaos and Complexity in Organiz-ations Network ECCON, and convenor of annual meetings of this network. He participated in several European-Union funded research and development programs (4th, 5th Framework: Esprit, Brite-EuRam, IST, IMS), and was reviewer for the 6th/ 7th Framework (‘New and Emerging Science and Technology’, Pathfinder activity), European Commission, Brussels. He served as an invited expert to Framework 6 Integrated Project European Collaborative Networked Organizations Leadership Initiative ECOLEAD. In 2004 & 2010, he was a visiting research fellow at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Eco-Technology Systems Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
Dr. Van Eijnatten was a lecturer, coach, and project supervisor in TU/e’s bachelor and master programs – Innovation Management (IM) and Operations Management and Logistics (OML) – where he taught compulsory and elective subjects in socio-technical systems design, organizational behaviour, complexity science, and research methodology. Dr. Van Eijnatten served as a methodological advisor for PhD students for over 20 years, and participated in several TIAS Executive Master programs (MRE, OPEXC, MOS). He was also teaching organizational development and change at TU/e PD-Eng level in the Engineering Design Program Logistic Management Systems. Dr. Van Eijnatten was a pro-gram manager of the Innovation Management master at TU/e, and operated as a Certified Member of the Dutch Accreditation Board for Universities of Professional Education, for almost a decade.
Since his retirement in August 2016 he joins the ITEM group at TU/e as a part-time lecturer. He is teaching two design science methodology master courses, and a premaster course on Research Methods at the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e, and is participating in three bachelor courses about Entrepreneurship, Product Innovation Processes, and Engineering Design.
His most recent trip was into Japan in 2016, for invited lectures about Computer-Aided Diagnosis at Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, and about the Future of Socio-Technical Systems at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, and an instruction workshops about the analysis of ipsative measures of organizational cultures in Japanese hospitals, conducted at the National Research Institute for Child Health and Development in Tokyo.
He was a member of the Research School for Operations Management and Logistics (BETA), for 20 years, and was engaged in research in the domains of human performance management, chaos and complexity in management, and organizational development and change. Some research topics were: Integral Organizational Renewal, Intensive Work, Work/ Life Balance, Intelligent Manufacturing and Participative Simulation, Workspace Design, Workflow Management Systems, Collaborative Network-ed Organizations, Chaordic Systems Thinking, Learning Organization, and Sustainable Work.
His original research interest was in Socio-Technical Systems Design, an ambition he pursued by initiating and co-ordinating Ph.D. design-oriented action research projects in R&D and information systems design. He produced several English- language reviews on the subject as well as a compre-hensive bibliography of the paradigm.
Dr. Van Eijnatten has explored the implications of Chaos and Complexity theories for Socio-Tech-nical Systems and Organizational Renewal (i.e., ‘Chaordic Systems Thinking’ – CST). He co-edited two guest issues about CST for the Journal of Organizational Change Management and The Learning Organization, and published an overview of Chaos and Complexity in Organization and Management in the Revue Sciences de Gestion. He was founder of the European Chaos and Complexity in Organiz-ations Network ECCON, and convenor of annual meetings of this network. He participated in several European-Union funded research and development programs (4th, 5th Framework: Esprit, Brite-EuRam, IST, IMS), and was reviewer for the 6th/ 7th Framework (‘New and Emerging Science and Technology’, Pathfinder activity), European Commission, Brussels. He served as an invited expert to Framework 6 Integrated Project European Collaborative Networked Organizations Leadership Initiative ECOLEAD. In 2004 & 2010, he was a visiting research fellow at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Eco-Technology Systems Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
Dr. Van Eijnatten was a lecturer, coach, and project supervisor in TU/e’s bachelor and master programs – Innovation Management (IM) and Operations Management and Logistics (OML) – where he taught compulsory and elective subjects in socio-technical systems design, organizational behaviour, complexity science, and research methodology. Dr. Van Eijnatten served as a methodological advisor for PhD students for over 20 years, and participated in several TIAS Executive Master programs (MRE, OPEXC, MOS). He was also teaching organizational development and change at TU/e PD-Eng level in the Engineering Design Program Logistic Management Systems. Dr. Van Eijnatten was a pro-gram manager of the Innovation Management master at TU/e, and operated as a Certified Member of the Dutch Accreditation Board for Universities of Professional Education, for almost a decade.
Since his retirement in August 2016 he joins the ITEM group at TU/e as a part-time lecturer. He is teaching two design science methodology master courses, and a premaster course on Research Methods at the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e, and is participating in three bachelor courses about Entrepreneurship, Product Innovation Processes, and Engineering Design.
His most recent trip was into Japan in 2016, for invited lectures about Computer-Aided Diagnosis at Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, and about the Future of Socio-Technical Systems at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, and an instruction workshops about the analysis of ipsative measures of organizational cultures in Japanese hospitals, conducted at the National Research Institute for Child Health and Development in Tokyo.
