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  • Surprise | There is no such thing as “economized” societies

    Roth, S. (2014), Fashionable functions. A Google ngram view of trends in functional differentiation (1800-2000), International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Vol. 10 No. 2, 34-58 [FNEGE*, CNRS*]. Abstract: Computer communication is revolutionizing modern society to the same extend as the invention of writing or the printing press have unsettled the archaic or the ancient society,…

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  • Release | Booties, bounties, business models. A map to the next red oceans

    Abstract: This quest is for pirate maps to blue oceans. The key problem involved is that blue oceans turn red whenever these maps make their way from pirates to mainstream entrepreneurs. Pirates therefore have an essential need for maps to the next blue oceans. In drawing on form theory, this article develops a map sheet, on…

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  • Release | Special Issue on Entrepreneurship and Piracy

    Entrepreneurship and Piracy | Special Issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 22 No. 4. Guest Editor: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France Reading:  Booties, bounties, business models. A map to the next red oceans Abstract: This quest is for pirate maps to blue oceans. The key problem involved is that blue…

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  • Release | An inter-functional comparative analysis of the Euro

    Roth, S. (2014), Coining societies: an inter-functional comparative analysis of the Euro, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 27 No. 2, 99-118. The present analysis of the Euro looks for the marks that function systems make on what we commonly take for the European money. Clearly distinguishing between coins and currency, the…

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  • Release | Business value communication and communication on business values

    Roth, S. (2014), The things that go without saying. On performative differences between business value communication and communication on business values, International Journal of Business Performance Management, Vol. 15 No. 3, 175-191. This article argues that analyses of value semantics in organisational image brochures, websites, and further official documents do not give information about an organisation’s ethical…

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  • Release | Fifty-two cases of value semantics copying on corporate websites

    Roth, S. (2013), Common values? Fifty-two cases of value semantics copying on corporate websites, Human Systems Management, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 249-265. Abstract: The present article claims that value communication literally goes without saying. Research in organizational value communication as in corporate image documents is therefore assumed to have nothing to do with the analysis…

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  • Release | Smart Regions: Two cases of crowdsourcing for regional development

    Roth, S., Kaivo-oja, J. and Hirschmann, T. (2013), Smart regions. Two cases of crowdsourcing for regional development, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 272-285. Abstract: Despite a certified need for stronger ties between regional entrepreneurial ecosystems and larger networks, and despite an emerging discourse on beneficial interlinks between crowdsourcing and urban…

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  • Call | Special Issue on Entrepreneurship and Piracy

    Entrepreneurship and Piracy | Special Issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Guest Editor: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France Conceptual or empirical submissions of 3000-6000 words could focus on contemporary or historical examples of pirate entrepreneurship. Who has labelled which forms of entrepreneurial activities as piracy? How has piracy contributed…

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  • Release | Les deux angleterres et le continent

    Roth, S. (2011), Les deux angleterres et le continent. Anglophone sociology as the guardian of Old European semantics, Journal of Sociocybernetics, Vol. 9 No. 1-2,  pp. 19-34. Abstract: Despite its influence in Central European sociology, Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems theory remains a marginal branch of international sociology. In this paper, the theory questions the reasons for its own marginality in…

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