Claus Rerup
Professor of Management • Professor
Professor of Management
Claus Rerup is Professor of Management and former Vice President Academic Affairs / Dean of Faculty at Frankfurt School (2021-2023). As an organizational scholar engaging in fieldwork, his research reveals the ambiguity and politics of the modern workplace by tracing how people are learning from experience, making sense of complex situations, and coping with disinformation and competing goals. His research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science.
Professor Rerup received several awards for his research as well as grants from the Danish Social Science Research Council, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Novo Nordisk, and several private foundations.
He served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Organization. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Award for his service to Organization Science four times. He co-edited a special issue on Research Frontiers on the Attention-Based View of the Firm in Strategic Organization. He was also a co-editor of Organizational Routines: How they are Created, Maintained, and Changed by Oxford University Press, and the Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics.
Claus teaches in the MBA and Master in Management degree programs. In Executive Education programs, he teaches modules on leadership, fall from grace, power and politics, learning, sensemaking, and ignorance and disinformation. He teaches and consults companies, including Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund (Canada), Norma Group (Germany), Ernst and Young (Germany), and Prudential Insurance (Hong Kong). Throughout his career, he received several teaching awards, including the 2019 Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance at Frankfurt School.
Before joining Frankfurt School, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Ivey Business School, the Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, and was a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Universität St.Gallen (HSG), Aarhus University (School of Business and Social Sciences), and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, GREDEG. He also worked as a consultant on mergers and acquisitions and served as a board member.
Professor Rerup earned a doctoral degree in Organization and Management and a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Aarhus University and held Visiting Scholar positions at Stanford University and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and a Postdoc at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Rerup received several awards for his research as well as grants from the Danish Social Science Research Council, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Novo Nordisk, and several private foundations.
He served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Organization. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Award for his service to Organization Science four times. He co-edited a special issue on Research Frontiers on the Attention-Based View of the Firm in Strategic Organization. He was also a co-editor of Organizational Routines: How they are Created, Maintained, and Changed by Oxford University Press, and the Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics.
Claus teaches in the MBA and Master in Management degree programs. In Executive Education programs, he teaches modules on leadership, fall from grace, power and politics, learning, sensemaking, and ignorance and disinformation. He teaches and consults companies, including Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund (Canada), Norma Group (Germany), Ernst and Young (Germany), and Prudential Insurance (Hong Kong). Throughout his career, he received several teaching awards, including the 2019 Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance at Frankfurt School.
Before joining Frankfurt School, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Ivey Business School, the Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, and was a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Universität St.Gallen (HSG), Aarhus University (School of Business and Social Sciences), and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, GREDEG. He also worked as a consultant on mergers and acquisitions and served as a board member.
Professor Rerup earned a doctoral degree in Organization and Management and a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Aarhus University and held Visiting Scholar positions at Stanford University and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and a Postdoc at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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PUBLICATIONS
Spencer, B., Rerup, C., 2024. The dynamics of inferential interpretation in experiential learning: deciphering hidden goals from ambiguous experience, Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 69(4), pp. 962-1005.
Rerup, C., Gioia, D., Corley, K., 2022. Identity transitions via subtle adaptive sensemaking: the empirical pursuit of the intangible, Academy of Management Discoveries Vol. 8(4), pp. 608-639.
Levinthal, D., Rerup, C., 2021. The plural of goal: Learning in a world of ambiguity, Organization Science Vol. 32(3), pp. 527-543.
Rerup, C., Zbaracki, M., 2021. The politics of learning from rare events, Organization Science Vol. 32(6), pp. 1391-1414.
Maslach, D., Branzei, O., Rerup, C., Zbaracki, M., 2018. Noise as signal in learning from rare events, Organization Science Vol. 29(2), pp. 225-246.
Salvato, C., Rerup, C., 2018. Routine regulation: Balancing conflicting goals in organizational routines, Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 63(1), pp. 170-209.
Strike, V., Rerup, C., 2016. Mediated Sensemaking, Academy of Management Journal Vol. 59(3), pp. 880-905.
Vera, D., Crossan, M., Rerup, C., Werner, S., 2014. 'Thinking Before Acting' or 'Acting Before Thinking': Antecedents of Individual Action Propensity in Work Situations, Journal of Management Studies Vol. 51(4), pp. 603-633.
Salvato, C., Rerup, C., 2011. Beyond Collective Entities: Multilevel Research on Organizational Routines and Capabilities, Journal of Management Vol. 37(2), pp. 468-490.
Rerup, C., Feldman, M., 2011. Routines as a Source of Change in Organizational Schemata: the Role of Trial-and-Error Learning, Academy of Management Journal Vol. 54(3), pp. 577-610.
Rerup, C., 2009. Attentional triangulation: learning from unexpected rare crises, Organization Science Vol. 20(5), pp. 876-893.
Levinthal, D., Rerup, C., 2006. Crossing an Apparent Chasm: Bridging Mindful and Less-Mindful Perspectives on Organizational Learning, Organization Science Vol. 17(4), pp. 502-513.
Barry, D., Rerup, C., 2006. Going Mobile: Aesthetic Design Considerations from Calder and the Constructivists, Organization Science Vol. 17(2), pp. 262-276.
Rerup, C., Gioia, D., Corley, K., 2022. Identity transitions via subtle adaptive sensemaking: the empirical pursuit of the intangible, Academy of Management Discoveries Vol. 8(4), pp. 608-639.
Levinthal, D., Rerup, C., 2021. The plural of goal: Learning in a world of ambiguity, Organization Science Vol. 32(3), pp. 527-543.
Rerup, C., Zbaracki, M., 2021. The politics of learning from rare events, Organization Science Vol. 32(6), pp. 1391-1414.
Maslach, D., Branzei, O., Rerup, C., Zbaracki, M., 2018. Noise as signal in learning from rare events, Organization Science Vol. 29(2), pp. 225-246.
Salvato, C., Rerup, C., 2018. Routine regulation: Balancing conflicting goals in organizational routines, Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 63(1), pp. 170-209.
Strike, V., Rerup, C., 2016. Mediated Sensemaking, Academy of Management Journal Vol. 59(3), pp. 880-905.
Vera, D., Crossan, M., Rerup, C., Werner, S., 2014. 'Thinking Before Acting' or 'Acting Before Thinking': Antecedents of Individual Action Propensity in Work Situations, Journal of Management Studies Vol. 51(4), pp. 603-633.
Salvato, C., Rerup, C., 2011. Beyond Collective Entities: Multilevel Research on Organizational Routines and Capabilities, Journal of Management Vol. 37(2), pp. 468-490.
Rerup, C., Feldman, M., 2011. Routines as a Source of Change in Organizational Schemata: the Role of Trial-and-Error Learning, Academy of Management Journal Vol. 54(3), pp. 577-610.
Rerup, C., 2009. Attentional triangulation: learning from unexpected rare crises, Organization Science Vol. 20(5), pp. 876-893.
Levinthal, D., Rerup, C., 2006. Crossing an Apparent Chasm: Bridging Mindful and Less-Mindful Perspectives on Organizational Learning, Organization Science Vol. 17(4), pp. 502-513.
Barry, D., Rerup, C., 2006. Going Mobile: Aesthetic Design Considerations from Calder and the Constructivists, Organization Science Vol. 17(2), pp. 262-276.
Rerup, C., 2006, Success, failure and the grey zone: how organizations learn (or don't) from ambiguous experience, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.
Rerup, C., 2004, Variations in organizational mindfulness, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.
Barry, D., Rerup, C., 2002, Calder and the network: towards movement and individual sensibility within structural network theory 1, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.
Rerup, C., 2004, Variations in organizational mindfulness, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.
Barry, D., Rerup, C., 2002, Calder and the network: towards movement and individual sensibility within structural network theory 1, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.
Martha S. Feldman, Brian T. Pentland, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Claus Rerup, David Seidl (eds), 2021. Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds), 2016. Organizational Routines: how they are created, maintained, and changed, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds), 2016. Organizational Routines: how they are created, maintained, and changed, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Hu, Y., Rerup, C., 2021, "Fools" with impossible goals: Mobilizing March's technology of foolishness to tackle grand challenges, in: Christine M. Beckman (ed): Carnegie goes to California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publ., pp. 97-128.
Rerup, C., Spencer, B., 2021, Carnegie School experiential learning and routine dynamics, in: Martha S. Feldman, Brian T. Pentland, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Claus Rerup, David Seidl (eds): Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 445-459.
Feldman, M., Pentland, B., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, K., Rerup, C., Seidl, D., 2021, What is routine dynamics?, in: Martha S. Feldman, et al. (eds): Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-18.
Hu, Y., Rerup, C., 2019, Sensegiving and sensemaking of highly disruptive issues: Animal rights experienced through PETA YouTube Videos, in: P. Haack, J. Sieweke, L. Wessel (eds): Microfoundatios of Institutions, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publ., pp. 177-195.
Eberhard, J., Frost, A., Rerup, C., 2019, The dark side of routine dynamics: Deceit and the work of Romeo pimps, in: Martha S. Feldman, Luciana D'Adderio, Paula Jarzabkowski, Katharina Dittrich (eds): Routine Dynamics in Action: Replication and Transformation, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publ., pp. 99-111.
Howard-Grenville, J., Rerup, C., 2017, A process perspective on organizational routines, in: Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds): The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies, Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 323-339.
Rerup, C., Powell, W., 2017, Opening the black box: the microfoundations of institutions, in: Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer (eds): The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, 2. Ed., Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 311-337.
Howard-Grenville, J., Rerup, C., Langley, A., Tsoukas, H., 2016, Introduction: advancing a process perspective on routines by zooming out and zooming in, in: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds): Organizational Routines, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 1-22.
Rerup, C., Levinthal, D., 2014, Situating the Concept of Organizational Mindfulness: the Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Learning, in: Guido Becke (ed): Mindful Change in Times of Permanent Reorganization, Berlin: Springer, pp. 33-48.
Rerup, C., Salvato, C., 2012, Role of attention triangulation in organizational learning processes, in: Norbert M. Seel (ed): Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, New York: Springer, pp. 2882-2886.
Rerup, C., 2004, Lærd ignorance og utænkelige hændelser: ulykken på Roskilde Festival den 30. juni 2000 (Learned ignorance and unthinkable events: the accident on the Roskilde Festival, June 30, 2000), in: John Parm Ulhøi (ed): Viden om ledelse, Kopenhagen: Børsen, pp. 418-430.
Rerup, C., 2000, Amid organizational incompetence and learned ignorance: a tentative theory, in: Torben Andersen, Inger Jensen, Arne Prahl (eds): Kompetence, i et organisatorisk perspektiv, Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, pp. 153-180.
Hildebrandt, S., Rerup, C., 1996, En dialog om den lærende organisation, in: Steen Hildebrandt, Erik Johnsen (eds): Aktuel ledelse, bliv ajourført og inspireret af 11 danske professorer, Kopenhagen: Børsen Bøger, pp. 305-333.
Rerup, C., 1995, What is job involvement?, in: Frans Bévort, Povl Erik Jensen, Arne Prahl (eds): Engagement i arbejdet, involvering i organisationer, Kopenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, pp. 289-309.
Rerup, C., Spencer, B., 2021, Carnegie School experiential learning and routine dynamics, in: Martha S. Feldman, Brian T. Pentland, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Claus Rerup, David Seidl (eds): Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 445-459.
Feldman, M., Pentland, B., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, K., Rerup, C., Seidl, D., 2021, What is routine dynamics?, in: Martha S. Feldman, et al. (eds): Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-18.
Hu, Y., Rerup, C., 2019, Sensegiving and sensemaking of highly disruptive issues: Animal rights experienced through PETA YouTube Videos, in: P. Haack, J. Sieweke, L. Wessel (eds): Microfoundatios of Institutions, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publ., pp. 177-195.
Eberhard, J., Frost, A., Rerup, C., 2019, The dark side of routine dynamics: Deceit and the work of Romeo pimps, in: Martha S. Feldman, Luciana D'Adderio, Paula Jarzabkowski, Katharina Dittrich (eds): Routine Dynamics in Action: Replication and Transformation, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publ., pp. 99-111.
Howard-Grenville, J., Rerup, C., 2017, A process perspective on organizational routines, in: Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds): The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies, Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 323-339.
Rerup, C., Powell, W., 2017, Opening the black box: the microfoundations of institutions, in: Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer (eds): The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, 2. Ed., Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 311-337.
Howard-Grenville, J., Rerup, C., Langley, A., Tsoukas, H., 2016, Introduction: advancing a process perspective on routines by zooming out and zooming in, in: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas (eds): Organizational Routines, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 1-22.
Rerup, C., Levinthal, D., 2014, Situating the Concept of Organizational Mindfulness: the Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Learning, in: Guido Becke (ed): Mindful Change in Times of Permanent Reorganization, Berlin: Springer, pp. 33-48.
Rerup, C., Salvato, C., 2012, Role of attention triangulation in organizational learning processes, in: Norbert M. Seel (ed): Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, New York: Springer, pp. 2882-2886.
Rerup, C., 2004, Lærd ignorance og utænkelige hændelser: ulykken på Roskilde Festival den 30. juni 2000 (Learned ignorance and unthinkable events: the accident on the Roskilde Festival, June 30, 2000), in: John Parm Ulhøi (ed): Viden om ledelse, Kopenhagen: Børsen, pp. 418-430.
Rerup, C., 2000, Amid organizational incompetence and learned ignorance: a tentative theory, in: Torben Andersen, Inger Jensen, Arne Prahl (eds): Kompetence, i et organisatorisk perspektiv, Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, pp. 153-180.
Hildebrandt, S., Rerup, C., 1996, En dialog om den lærende organisation, in: Steen Hildebrandt, Erik Johnsen (eds): Aktuel ledelse, bliv ajourført og inspireret af 11 danske professorer, Kopenhagen: Børsen Bøger, pp. 305-333.
Rerup, C., 1995, What is job involvement?, in: Frans Bévort, Povl Erik Jensen, Arne Prahl (eds): Engagement i arbejdet, involvering i organisationer, Kopenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, pp. 289-309.
Rerup, C., 2012. Picking up the signals that trigger crises: Attentional Triangulation, IESE insight (15) pp. 13-19.
Rerup, C., 2004. Reflective implementation of codified knowledge: five problems, Ledelse i Dag Vol. 14(58), pp. 82-87.
Rerup, C., 2003. The art of developing learned ignorance: between competence and incompetence, Ledelse i Dag Vol. 13(53), pp. 12-17.
Rerup, C., 2004. Reflective implementation of codified knowledge: five problems, Ledelse i Dag Vol. 14(58), pp. 82-87.
Rerup, C., 2003. The art of developing learned ignorance: between competence and incompetence, Ledelse i Dag Vol. 13(53), pp. 12-17.
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