dr. Jost Sieweke

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

Personal information

Jost Sieweke is an Associate Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Department of Management & Organization at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jost received his PhD from the University of Duesseldorf (Germany) in 2012 with a thesis examining the contributions of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to research in management and organization studies. He has been a visiting scholar in Vancouver (Canada) at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University (2015), and at the Stockholm School of Economics (2016). From 2019-2024, Jost was the programme director of the Executive MBA: Leading with Purpose at the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jost’s research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and The Leadership Quarterly. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies and The Leadership Quarterly.

Research

In his research, Jost focuses on two topics: First, he has a broad interest in leadership, especially strategic leadership. Among others, he focuses on the effects of leaders on follower behavior and performance, the effects of strategic leadership team composition on firm outcomes, and crisis leadership. Second, he examines antecedents and consequences of human errors, and he investigates how and under which conditions employees and organizations learn from errors.

Jost is also interested in natural experiments. He uses designs such as the difference-in-difference design and the regression discontinuity design in his work and created a website (www.naturalexperiments.org), which provides information for interested scholars.

For more information about Jost's research, please visit his profile at Researchgate or Google Scholar.

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