Albert Cath

Background

About Albert Cath

Albert Cath is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris and more than 30 years active as a self-employed organisational researcher, advisor. My primarily fields of activity encompass(ed) organisations that operate in the following domains: Water Management, Traffic and Transport, Climate Change and Sustainability Business, Healthcare, the Cultural Sector, Industry (R&D) and Knowledge-based Institutes (especially boundary organisations between science and policy). I lecture International Business Administration (IBA) at the American University of Paris (France). I teach courses in management and organisational behaviour, international business, leadership, strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship, business ethics and global sustainability management (Climate Change). My teaching, research, and consulting practice involves the understanding of complex thinking and coping with complex issues (social complexity theory, critical management studies). The inherent complexity of an issue is for me a starting point in the problem-solving, instead of reducing the issue, as often happens to top-down blueprints. This starting point has at least three implications in the design, reflexivity and the (re)search for problem-solving directions: introducing a plurality of perspectives, co-framing through stakeholder’s participation and stimulating 'self-eco-[re-]organisation', as an expression of ‘bottom-up' processes at the crossroads between society, organisation, the individual and knowledge. I also teach part-time at I-Arts in Maastricht Furthermore, I have designed and facilitated a myriad of workshops for the public and the private sector. Albert Cath studied Medicine (Bachelor) at the University of Amsterdam and Organisational studies (Master of Science) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Furthermore, I obtained a Ph.D. diploma at the University of Humanistic Studies in 2018.