Conferences

Invited panels and presentations

Selected chairs and co-chairs

  • Co-convenor of the sub-theme “Management, playful affordances, and organisation theory” at the 34th EGOS Colloquium in Tallinn, Estonia, July 5-7, 2018. Partners: Mikko Vesa and Harald Warmelink.

Selected attendances and presentations

  • Shareholder Ecology. A Luhmannian framework (with Vladislav Valentinov) and Managing the growth addiction. A systems therapy approach to capitalism, papers to the Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium in Naples, Italy, January 22-24, 2018.
  • Multifunctional organisation models. A systems-theoretical framework for new venture discovery and creation, paper to the Workshop on Small Business Economics, Accounting and Finance 2017 in La Rochelle, France, November 17, 2017.
  • Making and unmaking of capitalism. A systemic therapy approach, paper to the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Athens, Greece, August 29 – September 1, 2017.
  • Social theory above and beyond economy and society. A form-theoretical approach, paper to the 16th Annual Conference of International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC) in Innsbruck, Austria, May 24-26, 2017.
  • Organization and function. Next key factors in organization theory and practice, paper to the BSLab-SYDIC International Workshop, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, January 23-24, 2017.
  • Management as hacking. Prototype of a viral research program for next organizations, paper to the 16th Annual EURAM Conference, Université Paris-Est Créteil, June 1-4, 2016. Best paper nominee (14 General Conference Track).
  • Interfunctional business models. Map grid for an uncharted quadrant of the blue ocean, paper to the 16th Annual EURAM Conference, Université Paris-Est Créteil, June 1-4, 2016; and to the CBE Research Seminar Series at the American University of Armenia, Yerevan, April 22, 2016.
  • Growth and function. A viral research program for deconomized organizations, paper to the Luhmann-Conference , the Luhmann-Conference Conflicting Systems – Observed With Social Systems Theory, Inter University Center Dubrovnik, September 14-19, 2015.
  • Paradox, tetralemma, un-/certainty. A form-theoretical call for the re-gamification of management and organization, paper to the General Conference Track Theory, Complexity, and Management Science at the 15th Annual EURAM Conference, Kozminski University Warsaw, June 17-20, 2015.
  • Before Method. Research and the design of surprise, workshop input and moderation at the 6th EURAM Early Career Colloquium, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, February 11-13, 2015.
  • Academic respondent at the Critical Management Studies PhD conference, School of Management, University of Leicester, September 16-17, 2014.
  • Function and systemic constellations and The 10 systems, papers to the 27th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, University of Lund, August 14-16, 2014.
  • Market deforms. On intervention in the consociation with non-members, paper to the 30th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme: Challenging Change, University of Rotterdam, July 3-5, 2014.
  • From degrowth to regrowth. On growth strategies for post-banausic societies, paper to the Ephemera Conference “Organizing for the post-growth economy”, Copenhagen Business School, May 7-9, 2014.
  • 5th EURAM Early Career Colloquium, University of Alméria, January 29-February 1, 2014.
  • The Unpopular Function. Testing the Economization of Society Hypothesis Against a Google Ngram View of Trends in Functional Differentiation (1800-2000), paper presented at the 7th International Days of Statistics and Economics, University of Economics, Prague, September 19-21, 2013.
  • The Multifunctional Organization. Two Cases for a Critical Update for Research Programs in Organization, paper presented at the 8th EIASM Colloquium on Organizational Change and Development, Vlerick Business School, Ghent, September 12-13, 2013.
  • Spot on Neglected Function Systems. Challenging Capitalism by Systemic Constellations, paper to the PDW Degrowth, Capitalism and the Role of Business at the 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, August 9-13, 2013.
  • 4th EURAM Early Career Colloquium, Vaduz, January 30 – February 1, 2013.
  • “The German Research Environment” (December 2010), presented at the road show of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on ‘Research in Germany’, Yerevan.
  • “How far can crowdsourcing go? On benefits and limits of joint open innovation projects between Russia and the European Union”, presented at the International Seminar Program on the ‘Cooperation between Russian and EU Country Scientists in Social Sciences and Humanities’ of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2008 in Moscow.
  • Innovation expert in the ‘Boosting African R&D: growing stronger, going global’ think tank at the ‘Science with Africa’ Conference 2008 of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), Addis Ababa, 2008.