Publications

As a researcher, I aim to contribute to the academic discourse on organizational change through publications in leading international journals. Below, you’ll find recent publications organized by year. 

You can also find me on Google Scholar.

International Journal Publications

• Gündemir, S., Kanitz, R., Rink, F., Hoever, I. J., & Slepian, M. D. (2024). Beneath the surface: Employee resistance to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Current Opinion in Psychology. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101922

• Kanitz, R., Reinwald, M., Gonzalez, K., Burmeister, A., Song, Y., Hoegl, M. (2024). Supportive, resistant, or both? A person-centric view on employee responses to diversity initiatives. Journal of Applied Psychology. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001190

• Kukula, A., Reinwald, M., Kanitz, R., Hoegl, M. (2024). Bridging the past, or breaking from it? Continuity rhetoric and nontarget employee diversity initiative support. Journal of Management. (in press). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01492063241281466

• Gonzalez, K., Kanitz, R., & Briker, R. (2024). “AI can’t steal my soul”: In the age of AI, the human touch is paramount for the craft of managing change. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863241279916

• Hagl, C., Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., Hoegl, M. (2024) Change management interventions: Taking stock and moving forward. Human Resource Management Review 34(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2023.101000

• Straatmann, T., Kanitz, R., Stride, C., Hofmann, Y. E., Steinberg, U. (2023). Mobilizing professors’ support of digital change: Multi-level insights on IT resources as a boundary condition. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 60(3), 389-428. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863231209835

• Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., Briker, R., Straatmann, T. (2023). Augmenting organizational change and strategy activities: Leveraging generative artificial intelligence. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 59(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863231168974

• Kanitz, R., Gonzalez, K., Berger, S., Reinwald, M., Huettermann, H., Franczak, J. (2023). Am I the only one? Consequences of change championing (a)symmetry on group- and individual-level change outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(7), 1048–1065. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2683

• Kanitz, R., Huy, Q., Backmann, J., & Hoegl, M. (2022). No change is an island: How interferences between change initiatives evoke inconsistencies that undermine implementation. Academy of Management Journal. 65 (2), 683-710 https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2019.0413

• Kanitz, R. & Gonzalez, K. (2021). Are we stuck in the predigital age? Embracing technology-mediated change management in organizational change research. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57 (4), 447-458
  https://doi.org/10.1177/0021886321104289

• Backmann, J., Kanitz, R., Tian, A., Hoffmann, P., Hoegl M. (2020). Cultural gap bridging in multinational teams. Journal of International Business Studies. 51, 1283–131. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41267-020-00310-4

Practitioner-Oriented Publications

• Kanitz, R., Reinwald, M., Gonzalez, K., Burmeister, A., Song, Y., Hoegl, M. (2024) 4 ways employees respond to DEI initiatives. Harvard Business Review (digital). https://hbr.org/2024/07/research-4-ways-employees-respond-to-dei-initiatives

• Kanitz, R., Berger, S., Reinwald, M., & Huettermann, H., (2023). Wie das Zusammenspiel von Change Champions den Erfolg von Wandel beeinflusst. PERSONALquarterly. 4/2023

• Kieliszek, A., Kanitz, R., Reinwald, M. & Hoegl, M. (2023). Wie das Institut für Leadership und Organisation die Freiwillige Feuerwehr München in Sachen Diversität unterstützt [How the Institute for Leadership and Organization supports the Munich Volunteer Fire Department in matters of diversity]. LMU Munich School of Management Insights

• Kanitz, R., Hasreiter, S. (2023) Digital Transformieren: Wie digitale Innovationen neue Chancen und Risiken für das Change Management bringen [Transforming Digitally: How digital innovations bring new opportunities and risks to change management]. Zeitschrift für Organisationsentwicklung (ZfO)

• Kanitz, R., Backmann, J. & Hoegl, M. Huy, Q. (2022) Navigieren im Konzert der Veränderung [Navigating in the Concert of Change]. Zeitschrift für Organisationsentwicklung (ZfO)

• Huy, Q., Kanitz, R., Backmann, J. & Hoegl, M. (2021). How to reduce the risk of colliding change initiatives. MIT Sloan Management Review (digital). https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-reduce-the-risk-of-colliding-change-initiatives/