Peter Klaas
About Peter Klaas
Peter Klaas is Director of Organization Development, People & Culture in Vestas Nacelles A/S. He has extensive managerial experience, including two CEO positions and a number of other managerial and consultancy positions in different industries. Peter believes that a strong sense of urgency is the single most important leadership asset and his core competencies are building strong leadership teams, execution and turn-around. Peter is also a member of the international research community in Organization Design and publishes papers and articles on both academic and managerial issues.
Academic Degrees
- 2006 PhD, University of Southern Denmark
- 2002 Graduate Diploma in Business Management, University of Southern Denmark
Research Area
Peter Klaas main research areas are organization design and the mechanisms involved in organizational change over time. Departing from a view on organizations as information processing entities, he has focussed on how functional relationships between information processes and information structures drives and limits the dynamic development of the structure over time. Of special interest to Peter is how these relationships influence and determine organizational size and growth rates. Creating growth and maximizing organizational size are of key interest to managers for a large number of reasons, including strategic, economic, political and institutional reasons. Areas of interest are:
- The Dynamics of Organization Design
- Organizational growth
- Organization fit and performance
Academic Awards
Best in year. Civiløkonomernes boggave 2002, University of Southern Denmark.