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Dr. Frans M. van Eijnatten
Associate Professor (UHD)
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS)
Human Performance Management (HPM) group
Pav. J.08 - HPM
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Voice: +31 40 247 24 69 (GMT/MET+1)
Fax: +31 40 243 71 61 (GMT/MET +1)
E-mail: F.M.v.Eijnatten@tue.nl
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Dr. Frans M. van Eijnatten (1951) is an Associate Professor of Organizational Renewal and Complexity at the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. He has a bachelor/ master degree in Organizational Psychology from Tilburg University, The Netherlands (1974 -1978), and a Ph.D. from Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1985), dissertation subject: Socio-Technical Task Analyses conducted at Philips Industries in four European countries.
He is a member of the Research School for Operations Management and Logistics (BETA), and is engaged in research and development in the domains of human performance management, chaos and complexity in management, and organizational development and change. Some research topics in the last ten years were: Integral Organizational Renewal, Intensive Work, Work/Life Balance, Intelligent Manufacturing and Participative Simulation, Workspace Design, Socio-Technical Aspects of Workflow Management Systems, Collaborative Networked 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 comprehensive bibliography of the paradigm.
Currently, Dr. Van Eijnatten is exploring the implications of Chaos and Complexity theories for Socio-Technical Systems Design 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 is founder and coordinator of the European Chaos and Complexity in Organizations Network ECCON, and convenor of the 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’ – NEST, 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 and 2010, he spent some time as a visiting research fellow at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Eco-Technology Systems Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
Dr. van Eijnatten is a lecturer, coach, and project supervisor in TU/e’s bachelor and master pro-grammes – Innovation Management (IM) and Operations Management and Logistics (OML) – where he teaches compulsory and elective subjects in socio-technical systems design, organizational behaviour, complexity science, and research methodology. He is teaching methodological design of research for Ph.D. students, and for the TiasNimbas Master of Real Estate (MRE), and the Operational Excellence program (Opexc). He is also teaching organizational development and change at TU/e post-graduate level in the International Programs in Logistic Management Systems and Architectural Design.
Dr. Van Eijnatten is a Certified Member of the Dutch Accreditation Board for Universities of Professional Education, Chair of the ECCON Foundation, and a board member of the Dutch Chaosforum Foundation.
He is a member of the Research School for Operations Management and Logistics (BETA), and is engaged in research and development in the domains of human performance management, chaos and complexity in management, and organizational development and change. Some research topics in the last ten years were: Integral Organizational Renewal, Intensive Work, Work/Life Balance, Intelligent Manufacturing and Participative Simulation, Workspace Design, Socio-Technical Aspects of Workflow Management Systems, Collaborative Networked 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 comprehensive bibliography of the paradigm.
Currently, Dr. Van Eijnatten is exploring the implications of Chaos and Complexity theories for Socio-Technical Systems Design 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 is founder and coordinator of the European Chaos and Complexity in Organizations Network ECCON, and convenor of the 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’ – NEST, 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 and 2010, he spent some time as a visiting research fellow at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Eco-Technology Systems Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
Dr. van Eijnatten is a lecturer, coach, and project supervisor in TU/e’s bachelor and master pro-grammes – Innovation Management (IM) and Operations Management and Logistics (OML) – where he teaches compulsory and elective subjects in socio-technical systems design, organizational behaviour, complexity science, and research methodology. He is teaching methodological design of research for Ph.D. students, and for the TiasNimbas Master of Real Estate (MRE), and the Operational Excellence program (Opexc). He is also teaching organizational development and change at TU/e post-graduate level in the International Programs in Logistic Management Systems and Architectural Design.
Dr. Van Eijnatten is a Certified Member of the Dutch Accreditation Board for Universities of Professional Education, Chair of the ECCON Foundation, and a board member of the Dutch Chaosforum Foundation.
