Jürgen Staadt

Rotterdam School of Management

Organizations that find themselves within a problematic situation connected with cultural issues such as politics and power require adaptable research and corresponding modeling approaches so as to grasp the arrangements of that situation and their impact on the organizational development. This article originates from an insider-ethnographic interv...

Comment optimiser l´urbanisation d´un terrain en friche ou à passif?: localiser, caractériser et traiter les ”points chauds de pollution”, définir le projet le mieux adapter économiquement au contexte du site, garantir l´absence de risque sanitaire pour les occupants futurs et selon les usages retenus ou prévus.

En date du 25 juin 2013, le réseau EUKN (European Urban Knowledge Network) en collaboration avec la CIPU (Cellule nationale d’Information pour la Politique Urbain) et le département de l’aménagement du territoire de l’ MDDI, a organisé son premier « Policy Lab » au Luxembourg. Le thème central de ce « Policy Lab » était l’élaboration et le développ...

This paper aims to demonstrate how patterns of organisational dictatorship exercised by management and a small group of 'infected' internal advisors can have disastrous consequences on the one hand for the leading public organisation itself and on the other hand for society at large. The official data collection for the single case study undertaken...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usability of systems thinking in the process of redesigning a leading public housing provider within a problematic situation. The paper attempts to describe the influence of evolving negative internal socio‐political arrangements on the further development of the whole organization and suggest...

Jürgen Staadt was awarded the IPMA Outstanding Research Contribution for his research on “Redesigning a project-oriented organization using complex systems perspective and soft systems methodology approach”. The research was aimed at understanding the problematic situation of a public housing provider so as to be able to constantly adapt and learn...