Luhmann Conference 2027 Theme: Niklas Luhmann at 100: Person, Personality, and Personhood. Observed with Social Systems Theory Venue: Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Dates: 14-16 September 2027 (pre-conference dinner on 13 September 2027) Programme Committee: Dr Nico Buitendag, University of the Free State, South Africa Lars Clausen, UCL University College, Odense, Denmark Professor […]
Read More CFP | Luhmann Conference 2027The Research Council of Lithuania has included the following 13 publications authored or co-authored by members of the Next Society Institute in its official 2025 TOP 10 assessment of social science research published between 2016 and 2025. The assessment identifies publications by Lithuanian-affiliated researchers that rank among the world’s 10% most-cited articles in their respective […]
Read More Announcement | Multiple Publications by the Next Society Institute Featured in Lithuania’s Social Science Top 10 AssessmentSpecial Luhmann Conference 2025 issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management on the theme of “Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory” Click here for the issue as published on the JOCM website. Contributions Steffen Roth and Vladislav Valentinov: Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory. An introduction Albrecht Fritzsche and Alexander Bohnert: Reprogramming healthcare digitally […]
Read More Release | Special Issue of the JOCM on “Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory”18th EURAM Early Career Colloquium Distinction and Belonging: Finding Your Voice and Building Your Place in a Changing Academy Venue: Wolfson College, University of Cambridge Date: 15-17 March 2027 Are you an early career academic looking to share your research and develop collaboration opportunities in a vibrant environment of peers, senior mentors, and the EURAM top management team? […]
Read More CFA | EURAM Early Career Colloquium 2027 at Wolfson College, CambridgeSpecial Luhmann Conference 2025 issue of Information Technology & People on the theme of “Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory” Click here for the issue as published on the IT&P website. Contributions Dinesh Kumar and Nidhi Suthar: Programmes as decision premises in AI-mediated organisations: a social systems theory perspective Diane Laflamme: […]
Read More Release | Special Issue of IT&P on “Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory”The preliminary version of the programme for the Luhmann Conference 2026 at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik is available for download here. Luhmann Conference 2026 Theme: Meaning. Observed with … Venue: Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia Conference dates: 14–18 September 2026Pre-conference dinner: 14 September 2026 References: Andersen, N. A. (2003). The undecidability of decision. In Bakken T. and Hernes T. (Eds.) Autopoietic Organization Theory. Copenhagen Business […]
Read More Announcement | Luhmann Conference Programme 2026Abstract: Purpose: Business schools are increasingly expected to align their missions, curricula and research agendas with broader societal concerns such as sustainability, social responsibility and ethical governance. Yet debates on such repurposing often conflate organisational purpose with external performance expectations or broader societal function. This paper develops a systems-theoretical framework for analysing such claims. Design/methodology/approach: […]
Read More Release | From schools of business to schools of ideology? A systems-theoretical perspective on popular claims to organisational reprogrammingCall for Papers and Invitation to Contribute to An Approved Symposium of the Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE) on The Institutional Foundations of Stakeholder Theory. Insights from Original and Non-Mainstream Institutional Economics This hybrid symposium is combining invited anchor contributions with an open call for papers. Key Dates Extended abstracts due 31 January 2027 Fit […]
Read More CFP | The Institutional Foundations of Stakeholder Theory. Insights from Original and Non-Mainstream Institutional EconomicsAbstract: Purpose: This article examines the theoretical implications of organisational decisions being increasingly prepared, filtered, produced through or attributed to computational programmes rather than individual human actors. It asks under what conditions interactions between such programmes may be analysed as communicatively consequential and what this implies for management and organisation theory.Design/methodology/approach: The article develops a conceptual analysis […]
Read More Release | When Programmes Disagree About Programmes: Large Language Models, Code Poetry, and the Problem of Programme–Programme CommunicationAbstract: Calls for organizations to address grand societal challenges increasingly emphasise performance-oriented adaptation and organisational repurposing through new initiatives, metrics, and governance mechanisms. Yet this focus often neglects the more fundamental macro-structural role organisations play in society. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, this paper reclaims the long-neglected “third mandate” of organization theory by […]
Read More Release | Organisation and Function: Reclaiming the Third Mandate in the Age of Grand Challenges