Release | Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching

Abstract: Business family members face challenges related to exposure to diverse role expectations and systems logics, the management of which often results in sit- uations of high complexity, dilemmas, and paradoxes. To address these issues, in this paper we combine key insights from social systems theory with systemic family coaching tools such as “internal maps,” […]

Release | Heal the world. Eine lösungsorientierte, systemisch-therapeutische Sicht auf Umweltprobleme

Zusammenfassung: Die Umweltbewegung ist eine ausgesprochen problemzentrierte Bewegung, geht sie doch davon aus, dass unser kapitalistischer Lebensstil und unsere Abhängigkeit von ungebremstem Wachstum für die drohende Selbstauslöschung der Menschheit verantwortlich sind. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, das Risiko aufzuzeigen und zu moderieren, dass die Umweltbewegung von den Problemen co-abhängig ist, die sie zu lösen versucht. […]

Release | The tetralemma of the business family

Kleve H., Roth S., Köllner T., and Wetzel R. (2020), The tetralemma of the business family. A systemic approach to business-family dilemmas in research and practice, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 33 No. 2, pp. 433-446 [SSCI 1.185, Scopus, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**]. The ahead-of-print version of this article is available for download here. Abstract: This […]

Release | Heal the world. A solution-focused systems therapy approach to environmental problems

Roth S. (2019), Heal the world. A solution-focused systems therapy approach to environmental problems, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 216 No. April, pp. 504-510 [SSCI 6.395, Scopus, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***]. Article available for download here. Abstract: In observing a capitalist lifestyle of addiction to relentless growth responsible for an imminent self-extinction of the human race, environmentalism […]