Person

Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Steffen Roth

Full Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France, as of fall 2018
Research Professor of Digital Sociology, Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, as of fall 2018

Associate Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France, 2016-2018
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, ESC Rennes School of Business, France, 2012-2016
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Armenia, 2011-2016
Senior Researcher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland, 2011-2012
Research Assistant, Department of Business Administration Studies, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, 2007-2010
Research Assistant, Faculty of Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, 2004-2007.

Visiting Erasmus Professor, ISCTE Business School, University Institute of Lisbon, 2019
Visiting Professor, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, 2018
Visiting Erasmus Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zaragoza, 2018
Visiting Professor, Rabat Business School, International University of Rabat, Morocco, 2012-2017
Visiting Professor, University of Cagliari, Faculty of Economics, Italy, 2012
Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Denmark, 2012
Academic Fellow, Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network AFP International Scholar, Armenia, 2010-2011
Visiting Associate Professor, Yerevan State University, Department of Sociology, Armenia, 2010-2011

Habilitation in Economic and Environmental Sociology (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, 14/D1 Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro, dell’ambiente e del territorio) awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research on March 29, 2018.
Honorary Full Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University. Title awarded by the YSU Faculty of Sociology in September 2016 and confirmed by the YSU Rectorate on December 14, 2017.
PhD in Sociology (Docteur ès sciences économiques et sociales mention sociologie), Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva. Defended on September 28, 2013.
PhD in Economics and Management (Doctor rerum politicarum), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Chemnitz University of Technology. Defended on April 27, 2010
MA in Sociology (Diplom in Soziologie), Faculty of Humanities, Chemnitz University of Technology. Awarded on September 30, 2002

Associate Editor, Kybernetes [SCI .980, Scopus, ABS*]
Field Editor for Social Systems Theory, Systems Research and Behavioral Science [SSCI 1.034, Scopus, ABS**]
Member of the Editorial Board, SAGE Studies in International Sociology (SSIS)
Consulting Editor, Cybernetics and Human Knowing [ERA]
Member of the Editorial Council, Человек. Сообщество. Управление [Russian Science Citation Index]
Member of the Editorial Board, Systems [ESCI]
Member of the Editorial Board, European Journal of International Management [SSCI .575, ABS*, CNRS*, FNEGE*, VHB***]

Mentor of the EURAM Early Career Network and Member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), Belgium.
Member of the European Sociological Association (RN29 Social Theory and RN36 Sociology of Transformations), France.
Member of the International Sociological Association (RC09 Social Transformations, RC 16 Sociological Theory, and RC51 Sociocybernetics), Spain.
Founding member of the Big Data Excellence Centre at Kazimiero Simonavičiaus University in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the New Research on Digital Societies (NERDS) research center at Kozminski Univeristy in Warsaw, Poland.
Member of the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Technischen Universität Chemnitz, Germany.
Member of the Forschungskolleg Gesellschaft und Kontingenz, Berlin, Germany.

Winner of the Publons 2018 Peer Review Awards for top 1% reviewers in the Business and Economics field (click here for the reviewer profile at publons.com).
Swiss Open Innovation Award 2015, sponsored by Atizo360°, for 161 rewarded product and business model innovation ideas.
1st prize (EUR 1000), N-Kompass iChallenge, German business magazine Querdenker Magazin, 2015.
2nd & 3rd prize (EUR 400 plus consulting budget), business-plan competition of the Saxonian entrepreneurship network SAXEED, 2005.
2nd & 5th prize (DM 1000), marketing competition of the Chemnitz City Marketing, 2001.
Literary award of the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin, 2001.

Principale investigator for the project Platforms of Big Data Foresight (01.2.2-LMT- K-718-02- 0019, research lead: Jari Kaivo-oja) at Kazimieras Simonavičius University, funded by the Research Council of Lithuania with a budget of 610’000 EUR, 2018-2020