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  • CFP | Next Management Theory Track @EURAM 2017 in Glasgow

    Call for Papers to the T 14_01 Next Management Theory track at the EURAM Annual Conference in Glasgow, June 21-24, 2017 Next Management Theory track invites contributions to the fields of management and organization theory. We welcome papers that address the general significance of theorizing or reappraise classical key concepts and their adequacy to the post-millenium context. We…

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  • 8th EURAM Early Career Colloquium | 5-7 March 2017 in Rabat

    The European Academy of Management Early Career Network invites advanced PhD-students, Postdocs, and recently appointed Lecturers or Assistant Professors in management and cognate fields of research to meet peers, mentors, and members of the EURAM top management team at the 8th EURAM Early Career Colloquium on “Impact” March 5-7, 2017 @ Rabat Business School Co-hosted by La…

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  • Release | Growth strategies for post-growth societies

    Abstract: A sharp problem focus sharpens the problem. Sustainably ongrowing bodies of text on degrowth are not the key to post-growth scenarios because evocations of the limits of growth reinforce rather than transcend the economic principle, which is in the observation of scarcity. We therefore focus on alternative forms of growth rather than alternatives to…

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  • Organizational Behaviour and Theory Track @ASB Conference 2016 in Halifax

    Organizational Behaviour and Theory Track @Atlantic Schools of Business Conference 2016 in Halifax, October 21-13, 2016 The Organizational Behaviour and Theory track of ASB is sympathetic to papers that explore the relationship between the behaviour of people in organizations and individual, group and organizational outcomes. It welcomes papers that have a predictive capacity or seek to…

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  • Release | An Updated Google Ngram View of Trends in Functional Differentiation (1800-2000)

    Abstract: Using the updated Google Book corpus dataset generated in July 2012, we analyze the largest available corpus of digitalized books to review social macro trends such as the secularization, politicization, economization, and mediatization of society. These familiar trend statements are tested through a comparative analysis of word frequency time-series plots for the English, French,…

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  • Award | 161 product and business model innovation ideas

    I have been awarded the Swiss Open Innovation Award 2015, sponsored by Atizo360° AG, for my participation in 382 idea challenges and 161 rewarded product and business model innovation ideas. Thank you so much, Atizo360°, for the constant supply of need for cognition!

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  • Release | Trends in functional differentiation

    Trends in functional differentiation | Special Issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 22 No. 4. Guest Editor: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France Table of content Steffen Roth: Foreword: Trends in Functional Differentiation Articles Steffen Roth and Anton Schütz: Ten Systems: Toward a Canon of Function Systems There is no description of modernity…

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  • Change is the Only Constant

    Originally posted on Organization as Communication: In organizational studies, we frequently say that change is the only constant. I don’t really know who said this to begin with, and it really doesn’t matter, but change really is the only constant, not least because any communication event or episode is new another next first time (Garfinkel,…

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