Release | Special Issue of the JOCM on “Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory”

Special Luhmann Conference 2025 issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management on the theme of “Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory”

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Contributions

• Steffen Roth and Vladislav Valentinov: Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory. An introduction
• Albrecht Fritzsche and Alexander Bohnert: Reprogramming healthcare digitally – a longitudinal case study of organisational transformation
• Yisu Li: Embedded cultural programs and the inertia of China’s education reform: Confucian semantics and the imperial examination legacy
• Tanja Lindacher: “Inclusive” education as a catalyst for organizational change? A systems-theoretical analysis of the logic of organizational decision-making in the education system
• Franz Kasper Krönig: Purpose under transformation: a systems-theoretical critique of transformative leadership as organizational reprogramming
• Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes, Patrick Rupprecht, and Isabel Rodenas: Managing generative AI as organizational change: evidence from a multi-institutional study in education
• Shuang Liu: AI-enabled recursive reprogramming: a social systems theory perspective on algorithmic ambidexterity
• Gustavo Markier: AI travel paradox curatorial proposals to manage new organizational and governance challenges within a Luhmannian sociosemiotic framework
• Andrzej Stawicki: Programming and self-programming resilience in governance systems: a systems-theoretical investigation
• Nicolas Hayoz: The state-controlled society against modern society – the case of Russia

Recommended citation: Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2026). Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory. Special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 39 No. 6.

Associated Article: Steffen Roth and Brian Shedleski (2026). Multifunctional tetralemma: a systems-theoretical programme and its practical implications, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 195-204.