Celeste P.M. Wilderom, Ph.D.
Full Professor of Change Management & Organizational Behavior
Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences
Campus Building ‘Ravelijn’ Room# 2426
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Email: c.p.m.wilderom@utwente.nl
Phone: +31 (0)53 489-4159
Web: http://www.utwente.nl/bms/cmob/staff/wilderom/
Dutch
native, Professor Celeste Wilderom is a Ph.D.-holder in Organizational
Psychology (obtained in 1987 at the State Universi¬ty of New York, USA).
She teaches in the field of ‘Change Management and Organizational
Behavior’ (Intern. Business Administr.: University of Twente, Enschede,
the Netherlands). In her research she examines predictors of effective
organizational/team leadership, change and culture. She is advising
numerous Dutch and foreign PhD, MSc & BSc students; one PhD student
received the ‘Best Dissertation’ award, Academy of Management,
Public-Sector Division: 2007. Another PhD student of hers received in
2010 the annual Best Dissertation award of the International Leadership
Association. In 2015, a paper on behavior in Lean work settings,
co-authored with her PhD-student Desiree van Dun, won the Best-Paper
Award of the Operations Management division of the Academy of
Management; dr. Van Dun’s entire cum-laude PhD won in 2016 the EFMD
Best-Dissertation Award.
Prof. Wilderom is one of the three
editors of the award-winning 1st edition of the Handbook of
Organizational Culture and Climate (2000, Sage). A completely revised
2nd edition has been published, also by Sage Publishers (650 pages:
2011). A study on the productive role of high emotional intelligence of
managers is published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2015),
and another one in The Leadership Quarterly (2011); another, on
charismatic leadership and organizational cultures, appeared in 2012: an
outgrowth of the Leadership Lab which she initiated and heads. In this
Lab the latest video-analytical technology is being used for refining
and extending Transformational leadership theory. Prof. Wilderom and her
students regularly present research results at leading international
Management conferences (e.g., Academy of Management, EGOS, EURAM). Her
studies have appeared also in Organization Science; Accounting,
Organization and Society; European Journal of Information Systems;
Applied Psychology, etc.
Prof. Wilderom has been Associate
Editor of a number of international management journals such as the
British Journal of Management and The Academy of Management Executive
(now: Perspectives) as well as the International Journal of Service
Management. Currently, she is an editorial board member of a number of
journals such as The Leadership Quarterly; Group & Organization
Management; Journal of Management Inquiry; Journal of Professions and
Organizations, etc.
Various studies were published also in her
native Dutch language: e.g., on co-development of performance
measurement at the work floor; on effectively managing budget cuts in
large municipalities; and on the behaviors of highly effective Dutch
CIOs, mayors and (Lean and non-Lean) middle managers. Finally, action
research was carried out in cooperation with the (g)local Grolsch beer
brewery and with various other firms and public-sector actors such as
the Dutch Tax office.