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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Release | The case death makes for the immorality of the person

Roth, S. (2013), Dying is only human. The case death makes for the immorality of the person, Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, No. 11 Vol. 2, pp. 35-39. Abstract: The claim of the present article is that human mortality makes a case for the discovery of the immortal nature of the person. Based on a clear distinction […]

Release | Leaving Commonplaces on the Common Place

Roth, S. (2012), Leaving Commonplaces on the Common Place. Cornerstones of a Polyphonic Market Theory, Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 43-52. Abstract Markets are considered economic phenomena, which is said to be true even if markets are considered social structures, cultural fields, or simply politics, at the same time. Against this […]

Call | Reflecting Societies: Markets in Transition

Interdisciplinary Workshop Organized by Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University Supported by the Open Society Foundations HESP Academic Fellowship Program 25-26 January, 2011 Chairs: Assoc-Prof. Steffen Roth, Assoc.-Prof. Artur Atanesyan, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Arsen Bobokhyan, Dr. Hasmik Khalapyan. Program