PhD defence: Esben Langager Olsen

The dissertation investigates how change management tools affect change managers in the context of change management training and Lean implementation in Novozymes. Inspired by performativity literature, the dissertation studies the tools’ design, change managers way of responding to the tools and how change managers make them operational. The dissertation considers the tools’ role in making organizational change appear in certain ways and the consequences of this for the process of becoming a change manager. 

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Signe Vikkelsø

Department of Organization

Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisors:

Associate Professor Johan Simonsen Abildgaard

Department of Organization

Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor José Ossandón

Department of Organization

Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Ursula Plesner (Chair)

Department of Organization

Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor Nick Butler

Företagsekonomiska Institutionen

Stockholm University

Associate Professor Kasper Trolle Elmholdt

Department of Politics and Society

Aalborg University

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the kitchen area of IOA (4th floor).