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  • Hacking Theory @15th EURAM conference in Warsaw 2015

    Systemic Management and Management Theory group meeting @European Academy of Management Conference 2015 Friday, June 19, 2015, 11:30-13:00, room A 119, Kozminski University Warsaw Chair: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, email. Description: The aim of this meeting is to facilitate interaction among management researchers with backgrounds and interests in systems theory, form theory,…

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  • Release | Gamification of Innovation

    Special Issue of Creativity and Innovation Management on Gamification of Innovation Roth, S., Schneckenberg, D. and Tsai, C.-W. (2015), The ludic drive as innovation driver: Introduction to the gamification of innovation, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 300-306. Abstract: Gamification has recently been receiving increased attention in corporate innovation and business research alike. In this article, we…

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  • Release | Serious gamification

    Abstract: We challenge the idea of the paradoxical nature of the concept serious games and ask how researchers and designers need to conceive of serious games so that they at all appear paradoxical. To develop and answer this question, we draw on a theory–method that considers all forms of observation as paradoxical. We then use the…

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  • Call | Conflicting Systems: Observed with social systems theory

    Conflicting Systems: Observed with social systems theory Time: 14-18 September 2015.  Place: International University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia Conference organizers: Gorm Harste, Aarhus University, Denmark; Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France, and Yerevan State University, Armenia. Conference description: Systems do not evolve as unities. They develop their complexities due to differences, and handle complexities due to…

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  • Call | Management and Function: From Added Values to Augmented Realities

    Call for papers to a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science (ABS2*) Management and Function: From Added Values to Augmented Realities Guest Editor: Dr. Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France The distinction of function systems such as the political system, the economy, science, religion, or the legal system is considered a key principle of…

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  • Interview | The Globe and Mail on Entrepreneurship and Piracy

    Canada’s newspaper of record, The Globe and Mail, has published an article on Piracy and Entrepreneurship Education featuring our recently released special issue on Entrepreneurship and Piracy as well as a short interview section on dismoralized piratology. Read “Disruptors are just pirates on the high seas of capitalism” by Dana Lawrence online or download the PDF-version of the full article.

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  • Post | The single player mode of decision

    The single player mode of decision: Management as strategic unobservation of organization A response to Thomas Hirschmann’s shout out  Abstract: Management appears whenever we aim to observe organization as guide for or outcome of individual behavior. Organizations are systems of decision. Organizations appear if we observe chains of decision rather than chains of individual behaviors, with…

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  • Call | 6th EURAM Early Career Colloquium

    Are you a Postdoc?  Are you a Junior Lecturer/ Assistant Prof? Do you want to be part of a “Young EURAM” to share early career experiences and gain Insights? Call for Participants 6th EURAM Early Career Colloquium “How to PRomote your research?” February 11-13, 2015 Hosted by the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland Following the successful EURAM…

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  • Release | The Multifunctional Organization

    Roth, S. (2014), The multifunctional organization: Two cases for a critical update for research programs in management and organization, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 37-54. Abstract: Organization and functional differentiation are considered key principles of modern societies. Yet, within organizational studies little research has been conducted on the interplay of function systems, organizations, and society.…

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