The 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 research fields.
2026
- Roth S., Mansur J., Sales A., Zazar K., Dahms H., Arnold T., and Valentinov V. (2026), Big data insights into social macro trends: Expanding the horizon (1800-2018), Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 353-361.
- Roth S. and Sales A. (2026), Multifunctional organisation. A systems-theoretical concept and its practical implications, Kybernetes, Vol. 55 No. 9, pp. 3961–3971.
- Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2026), Multifunctional tetralemma. Framework for the strategic management of moral trade-offs, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 205 No. 4, pp. 863-878.
- Valentinov, V., de Oliveira Santos Jhunior, R., & de Araujo Góes, H. A. (2026). Corporate environmental sustainability via stakeholder collaboration: insights from classical institutional economics. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 203 No. 2), 279-296.
2025
- Roth S., Clausen L., and Zazar K. (2025), Guiding distinctions: observed with social systems theory. An introduction, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 447-454.
- Roth S., Kiskiene A., Gaizauskiene D., and Kaivo-oja J. (2025), N-factorial scenarios. A systems-theoretical approach to scenario-planning, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 545-552.
- Roth S., Sales A., and Clausen L. (2025), Rainmaking: Observed with social systems theory, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 374-382.
- Roth S., Sales A., and Valentinov V. (2025), Value plurality and multifunctional commensuration in organisation. A systems-theoretical approach, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 553-562.
- Valentinov, V. (2025). Three problems of business addressed by stakeholder theory: Insights from the institutional economics of John R. Commons, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 201 No. 3, pp. 717-733.
2024
- Valentinov V. and Roth S. (2024), Relationality and contractual safeguards in stakeholder theory, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Vol. 33 No. 3, pp. 535-546.
2023
- Roth S. (2023), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 451-459.
- Valentinov, V. (2023). Stakeholder theory: Toward a classical institutional economics perspective, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 188 No. 1, pp. 75-88.
2019
- Roth S. (2019), Digital transformation of social theory. A research update, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 146 No. September, pp. 88-93.
Sources: Official 2025 TOP 10 results, pp. 121–123 and Research Council assessment methodology, §29.
