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Janina Klein

Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, Management and Organisation

Personal information

Janina Klein is an Associate Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Department Management and Organization. Janina obtained her PhD in Management from the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her professional background is in change management, leadership development, and consulting where she worked for more than fourteen years in various international executive roles prior to joining academia. Janina is a certified business coach, an associate of the Centre for Strategic Leadership at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and a member of the VU Center for Business & Society.

Research

Janina's research is motivated by a single overarching question: how do organizations contribute to or obstruct the resolution of societal problems? She approaches this question through two complimentary research streams. The first examines how the framing of societal problems shapes social change, with a focus on understanding why and how some framing mobilizes action towards social change while others forecloses it. The second stream investigates how mission-driven organizations manage and drive organizational and social change, with a particular focus on the role of values and emotions.

Dr. Janina Klein, Assistant Professor of Organizational Change at SBE - YouTube

Teaching

Janina is the program director of the MSc in Business Administraion and the program coordinator for the Management Consulting specialization within the program. She also serves as vice-chair of the exam committee for professional education, and is the director of the mentoring program for international master students (MIMS), an faculty-wide program to help international students integrate into the Dutch educational environment and feel at home at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Her teaching is guided by a core conviction: in a world characterized by complexity, rapid change, and contested knowledge, what students most need is not information but the capacity to think critically, act ethically, and continue developing as professionals long after they leave the classroom. She pursues this through practice-informed instruction and active learning, both of which reflect a deep belief that continuous learning happens when students are the agents of their own learning journey rather than passive recipients of content.

She teaches the following courses: Organizational change and international HRM (MBA in International Business); Leading Change (EMBA Leading with Purpose); Consulting Project (MSc Management Consulting); Academic Writing Skills: From PhD Paper to Publication (PhD course).

Ancillary activities

Migration, Business & Society network | Vienna | Member | 2022-10-23 - present
ICU Global Mobility Services GmbH | Passau | Adviseur | 2023-01-02 - present
Center for Strategic Leadership University of Edinburgh Business School | Edinburgh | Associate | 2020-06-16 - present

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