Release | Special Issue | Scientific communication. Observed with social systems theory

Special Luhmann Conference 2022 Issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research (Vol. 37 No. 3) on Scientific communication. Observed with social systems theory Edited by Steffen Roth, Kresimir Zazar, Lars Clausen, and Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes Introduction Steffen Roth, Kresimir Zazar, Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes, and Lars Clausen: Scientific communication observed with social […]

CFP | Special Issue | Guiding distinctions of management and organisation research

Call for PapersGuiding distinctions of management and organisation research Guest Editors Steffen Roth1,2, Lars Clausen3,2*, Margit Neisig4,2, Augusto Sales5,2 1Excelia Business School La Rochelle, France, 2Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania3UCL University College, Denmark4Roskilde University, Denmark5Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Brazil *Corresponding co-guest editor Click here to download this CFP as PDF. Luhmann Conference 2024 & […]

CFP | Luhmann Conference 2024 | Guiding distinctions. Observed with social systems theory

Call for papers to the Luhmann Conference 2024 Topic: Guiding distinctions. Observed with social systems theory Venue: Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, CroatiaAddress: Don Frana Bulicá 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia Submission deadline (abstracts): 15 June 2024 Conference dates: 10-13 September 2024Pre-conference dinner: 09 September 2024Early Career Program: 09 September 2024 To download this Call for Papers, please click here. […]

Release | Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension

Abstract: In Niklas Luhmann’s vision of the modern functionally differentiated society, health presents one of the essential function systems, along with politics, law, economy, or science. While he devoted much effort to elaborating the theoretical foundations of the latter function systems, his work on the health system was relatively sparse. This research gap has been […]

Lexikonbeitrag | Funktionssystem

Roth S. (in press) Funktionssystem. In: Wirth J. and Kleve H. (Hrsg.) Lexikon des systemischen Arbeitens. Heidelberg: Carl Auer Verlag. Leseprobe: engl. function system oder functional system, franz. système fonctionnel m. → Funktionssysteme sind soziale → Systeme, die sich selbst erhalten und ausdifferenzieren (→ Autopoiesis), indem sie die Anschlussfähigkeit von → Kommunikation in einem bestimmten Erfolgsmedium […]

Membership | Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik

I have the honour to inform you that I have been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. Throughout its 50 years of existence, the IUC has been particularly well-known as one of the prime venues worldwide for encounters between academics from both sides of the iron curtain. Embedded in a particularly […]

Release | Theory as method: introduction to supertheoretical options for organization and management research

Abstract: This article is devoted to conditions and examples of how theories may be applied as methods in the fields of management research and organization studies. An introduction to minimum requirements for a successful refunctionalization of theory as method as well as to nine contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change […]

CFP | EURAM 2021 | Track 14-02 Management history, theory, and philosophy

Call for papers to the SIG 14 track T14-02 “Management History, Theory, and Philosophy” at the EURAM 2021 Conference in Montréal Track description: The Management History, Theory, and Philosophy track addresses historical and philosophical foundations and challenges of management and organisation theory and practice. Knowledge of these foundations and challenges is vital for developing creative management solutions […]

Release | NOR: Truth table, true distinction

Feature: In his 1926 life-size poster “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (Man as Industrial Palace), physician and infographics pioneer Fritz Kahn draws on the state of art, science, and technology of the second industrial revolution to depict core processes of the human organism as if it were a factory: tubes filled with chemicals, a metabolic division […]