• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (in press), Reimagining ESG: A tetralemma approach to multifunctional sustainability reporting, Organization & Environment, DOI: 10.1177/10860266251410473 [SSCI 7.3, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S. and Shedleski, B. (in press), Multifunctional tetralemma. A systems-theoretical programme and its practical implications, Journal of Organizational Change Management, DOI: 10.1108/JOCM-10-2025-0928 [SSCI 2.70, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Valentinov V. and Roth S. (in press), Multifunctional tetralemma. Framework for the strategic management of moral trade-offs, Journal of Business Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-025-06138-y [SSCI 8.70, Scopus Q1, FT50, FNEGE****, CABS***, VHB****].
• Roth S. and Sales A. (in press), Purpose and Organisation Studies: On the Limits to Organisational Repurposing, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, DOI: 10.1002/sres.3177 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S. and Sales A. (in press), Multifunctional organisation. A systems-theoretical concept and its practical implications, Kybernetes, DOI: 10.1108/K-05-2025-1387 [SSCI 2.90, Scopus Q1, CABS*].
• Roth S., Mansur J., Sales A., Zazar K., Dahms H., Arnold T., and Valentinov V. (in press), Big data insights into social macro trends: Expanding the horizon (1800-2018), Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, DOI: 10.1002/sres.3175 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Sales A., Roth S., and Valentinov V. (in press), Reframing conventional entrepreneurship: A systemic case study of Buser, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, DOI: 10.1108/JSBED-11-2024-0598 [SSCI 2.90, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**].
• Zazar K. and Roth S. (in press), Freedom of scientific inquiry and democracy. A systems-theoretical approach, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, DOI: doi.org/10.1002/sres.3174 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S. (in press), The matrix reloaded. A revised framework for the inference of the four basic forms of social differentiation, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, DOI: 10.1002/sres.3131 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].

• Roth S., Watson S., Dahms H., and Atanesyan A. (2025), Guiding distinctions of social theory. Analogue guidelines or digital transformers? An introduction, Current Sociology, Vol. 73 No. 4, pp. 477 – 492 [SSCI 1.90, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**]
• Köllner T. and Roth S. (2025), Family Businesses and Business Families in Cultural Context: Interdisciplinary Updates for Family Business Research, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Vol. 32 No. 2, 374-392 [SSCI 1.90, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**].
• Roth S. and Sales A., (2025), Cybernetics and Systems Theories for the 21st Century. Introducing the New Aims and Scope of Kybernetes, Kybernetes, Vol. 54 No. 8, pp. 4071-4077 [SSCI 2.90, Scopus Q1, CABS*].
• Roth S. (2025). What is in organisation? Contents of a self-contained container, Management Revue, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 39590 [ESCI, Scopus Q4, CABS**, VHB***].
• Zazar K. and Roth S. (2025), Political and economic instrumentalisation of science. Toward an extended concept of corruption, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 702-712 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2025), The state as creative destroyer. A systems perspective on entrepreneurship by organised monopolies on violence, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 1019-1037 [SSCI 4.70, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS***].
• Arnold T., Roth S., and Kleve H. 2025), Double binds in dialogue: Unraveling paradoxical communication in business families and family businesses, Management Revue, Vol. 36 No. 1, 39358 [ESCI, Scopus Q4, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Sales A., and Clausen L. (2025), Rainmaking: Observed with social systems theory, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 374-382 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Clausen L., Neisig M., and Sales A. (2025), Guiding distinctions of management and organisation research. An Introduction, Management Revue, Vol. 36 No. 1, 39357 [ESCI, Scopus Q4, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Sales A., and Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T. (2025), Environments: Observed with social systems theory. An introduction, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 263-269 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Sales A., Mansur J., Valentinov V., and Roth S. (2025), Willing unwillingness. A Luhmannian perspective on followership and leadership in organizations, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 563-573 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Clausen L., and Zazar K. (2025), Guiding distinctions: observed with social systems theory. An introduction, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 447-454 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Sales A., and Valentinov V. (2025), Value plurality and multifunctional commensuration in organisation. A systems-theoretical approach, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 553-562 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Kiskiene A., Gaizauskiene D., and Kaivo-oja J. (2025), N-factorial scenarios. A systems-theoretical approach to scenario-planning, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 545-552 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Watson S., Möller S., Clausen L., Zazar K., Dahms H., Sales A., and Lien V. (2025), Guiding distinctions of social theory: results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus, Current Sociology, Vol. 73 No. 4, pp. 629-650  [SSCI 1.90, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**].

• Roth S. (2024), Spaceship Earth. A total institution, Ecological Economics, Vol. 223, 108243 [SSCI 7.000, Scopus Q1, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Arnold T. and Roth S. (2024), Social systems theory and family business: a perspective article. Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 37 No. 6, pp. 1015 – 1024 [SSCI 1.00, Scopus Q3, CABS**].
• Nagel L., Roth S., and Kleve H. (2024), Theory of the third: A cybernetic approach to conflict dynamics in business families, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 395-403. [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2024), Truth tables, true distinctions. Paradoxes of the source code of science, Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 261-267 [SSCI 1.267, Scopus Q3, CABS**].
• Valentinov V. and Roth S. (2024), Relationality and contractual safeguards in stakeholder theory, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Vol. 33 No. 3, pp. 535-546 [SSCI 5.591, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Zazar K., Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T., and Clausen L. (2024), Scientific communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction and outlook to pure science for society, Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 251-260 [SSCI 1.267, Scopus Q3, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2024), Paradox and family business: A perspective article, Journal of Family Business Management, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 305-209 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q1, CABS*, VHB**].
• Valentinov V. and Roth S. (2024), Stakeholder theory: exploring systems-theoretic and process-philosophic connections, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 301-315 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**]. Recognised as Wiley Top Cited Article 2023.
• Roth S., Kaivo-oja J., van Assche K., and Dahms H. F. (2024), Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century reintroduction to ‘Simulation and Dissimulation’, Futures, Vol. 155, 103283 [SSCI 3.000, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS**].

• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2023), Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems-theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40 No. 6, pp. 945-954 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Kaivo-oja J. and Roth S. (2023), Strategic foresight for competitive advantage: A future-oriented business and competitive analysis techniques selection model, International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Vol. 16 Nos. 2-4, pp. 323-353 [Scopus Q4, CABS*].
• Roth S. (2023), Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al., Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 101278 [SSCI 3.383, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Guy J.-S. and Roth S. (2023), What makes a difference? Symmetry as a sociological concept, Theory and Society, Vol. 52 No. 5, pp. 947–964 [SSCI 2.900, Scopus Q1].
• Arnold T., Kleve H., and Roth S. (2023), Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 713-722 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Sales A., Mansur J., and Roth S. (2023), Fit for functional differentiation. New directions for personnel management and organizational change bridging fit theory and social systems theory, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 273-289 [SSCI 2.096, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S. (2023), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 451-459 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**]. Recognised as Wiley Top Cited Article 2022-2023.
• Roth S., Schneckenberg D., Valentinov V., and Kleve H. (2023), Approaching management and organization paradoxes paradoxically: The case for the tetralemma as an expansive encasement strategy, European Management Journal, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 191-198 [SSCI 6.110, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***]. 
• Schneckenberg D., Roth S., and Velamuri V. K. (2023), Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 162 No. July, 113883 [SSCI 11.300, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB****].
• Roth S., Czakon W., Amann W., and Dana L.-P. (2023), From organised scepticism to research mission management? Introduction to the Great Reset of management and organization theory, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 39 No. 3, 101277 [SSCI 3.383, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2023), Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 331-345 [SSCI 2.957, Scopus Q1, CABS****].

• Valentinov V. and Roth S. (2022), Chester Barnard’s theory of the firm: an institutionalist view. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 56 No. 3, pp. 707-720 [SSCI .854, Scopus Q3, CNRS**, CABS**].
• Augustinaitis A., Kaivo-oja J., Laureus T., Kiskiene A., Bzhalava L., and Roth S. (2022), Evaluation of the implementation of smart specialisation strategy in the Lithuanian industry, Journal of Business Economics and Management, Vol. 23 No. 6, 1299–1314 [SSCI 2.028, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Sales A., Roth S., Grothe-Hammer M., and Azambuja R. (2022), From play to pay: A multifunctional approach to the role of culture in post-merger integration. Management Decision, Vol. 60 No. 7, pp. 1922-1946 [SSCI 5.589, Scopus Q1, CNRS*, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB**].
• Ionescu A. M., Clipa A.-M., Turnea E.-S., Bedrule-Grigoruta M. V., and Roth S. (2022), The impact of innovation framework conditions on corporate digital technology integration: institutions as facilitators for sustainable digital transformation, Journal of Business Economics and Management, Vol. 23 No. 5, pp. 1037–1059 [SSCI 2.028, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Laursen K. B., Harste G., and Roth S. (2022), Moral communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction. Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 1653-1666 [SCI 1.754, Scopus Q1, CABS*].

• Roth S. (2021), The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective, European Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 538-544 [SSCI 5.075, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Mills A., Lee B., and Jemielniak D. (2021), Theory as method. Introduction to supertheoretical options for organization and management research, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 689-698 [SSCI 2.293, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Valentinov V., Roth S., and Pies I. (2021), Social goals in the theory of the firm: a systems theory view, Administration and Society, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 273–304 [SSCI 1.564, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB**].
• Roth S. (2021), Draw your organization! A solution-focused theory-method for business school challenges and change, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 713-728 [SSCI 2.293, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2021), The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 166, p. 120636 [SSCI 8.593, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Grothe-Hammer M. and Roth S. (2021), Dying is normal, dying with the coronavirus is not: A sociological analysis of the implicit norms behind the criticism of Swedish ‘exceptionalism’, European Societies, Vol. 23, No. sup 1, pp. S332-S347 [SSCI 1.051, Scopus Q1].
• Valentinov V. and Roth S. (2021), Chester Barnard’s systems-theoretic approach to organization theory: a reconstruction, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 28 No. 5, DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2021.1877759 [SSCI .398, Scopus Q1, CNRS****, FNEGE**, CABS**].

• Roth S. (2020), Heal the world. Eine lösungsorientierte, systemisch-therapeutische Sicht auf Umweltprobleme, Familiendynamik, Vol. 45 No. 4, pp. 296-307.
• Roth S., Valentinov V., Heidingsfelder M., and Pérez-Valls M. (2020), CSR beyond Economy and Society. A post-capitalist approach, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 165 No. 3, pp. 411-423 [SSCI 4.141, Scopus Q1, FT50, CNRS***, FNEGE****, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2020), East of nature. Accounting for the environments of social sciences, Ecological Economics, Vol. 176, 106734 [SSCI 4.482, Scopus Q1, CNRS****, CABS***, VHB***, Handelsblatt 0.2].
• Roth S., Valentinov V., and Clausen L. (2020), Dissecting the empirical-normative divide in business ethics: the contribution of systems theory, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 679-694 [SSCI 2.056, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB**].
• Roth S., Clausen L., and Möller S. (2020), COVID-19. Scenarios of a superfluous crisis, Kybernetes, DOI: 10.1108/K-05-2020-0280 [SCI 1.754, Scopus Q1, CABS*].
• 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 Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2020), Weak evidence for strong pandemic interventions. A 2019 WHO warning for the current Covid-19 crisis, Kybernetes, DOI: 10.1108/K-04-2020-0248 [SCI 1.754, Scopus Q1, CABS*].
• Roth S., Schwede P., Valentinov V., Pérez-Valls M., and Kaivo-oja J. (2020), Harnessing big data for a multifunctional theory of the firm, European Management Journal, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 54-61 [SSCI 2.985, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Hirschmann T., Hartley N., and Roth. S (2020), Can we build resilience by way of creativity? Artistic ventures in a London hospice, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Vol. 24 Nos. 2-3, pp. 116-131 [Scopus Q3, CRNS*, FNEGE* CABS*, VHB**].
• Roth S. (2020), Of wolfs and dogs, and other false distinctions. A rejoinder to Wallis, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 182-183 [SSCI 1.052, Scopus Q2, CABS**].

• Roth S., Schwede P., Valentinov V., Zazar K., and Kaivo-oja J. (2019), Big data insights into social macro trends (1800-2000): A replication study, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 149, 119759 [SSCI 5.846, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S., Santonen T., Heimstädt M., Clark C., Trofimov N., Kaivo-oja J., Atanesyan A., Laki B., and Sales A. (2019), government.com? Multifunctional cabinet portfolio analysis of 201 national governments, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 32 No. 6, pp. 621-639 [SSCI 1.185, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**]. This article won an Emerald Literati Award 2020 for Highly Commended articles.
• Roth S., Dahms H., Welz F., and Cattacin S. (2019), Print theories of computer societies. Introduction to the digital transformation of social theory, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 149, 119778 [SSCI 5.846, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S., Leydesdorff L., Kaivo-oja J., and Sales A. (2019), Open Coopetition: When Multiple Players and Rivals Team Up, Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 41 No. 6, pp. 31-38 [Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE*, CABS*, VHB**].
• Roth S. (2019), Digital transformation of social theory. A research update, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 146 No. September, pp. 88-93 [SSCI 5.846, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S. (2019), The open theory and its enemy. Implicit moralisation as epistemological obstacle for general systems theory, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 36 No. 3, pp. 281-288 [SSCI 1.052, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Valentinov V., Roth S., and Will M. G. (2019), Stakeholder theory: A Luhmannian perspective, Administration and Society, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 826-849 [SSCI 1.698, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB**].
• 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 Q1, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***].

Selected pre-2019 articles

• Roth S., Valentinov V., Kaivo-oja J., and Dana L.-P. (2018), Multifunctional organisation models. A systems-theoretical framework for new venture discovery and creation, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 31 No. 7, pp. 1383-1400 [SSCI 1.262, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**]. This article won an Emerald Literati Award 2019 for Highly Commended articles. 
• Рот С., Трофимов Н.А., и Мкртичян А. (2018), Где же капитализм? Анализ русской языковой среды в XIX и XX веках с помощью больших данных, Южно-Российский Журнал Социальных Наук, Том 19 № 2, C. 6-26.
• Will M. G., Roth S., and Valentinov V. (2018), From nonprofit diversity to organizational multifunctionality: a systems-theoretical proposal, Administration and Society, Vol. 50 No. 7, pp. 1015-1036 [SSCI 1.698, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB**].
• Roth S., Valentinov V., Agustinaitis A., Mkrtichyan A., and Kaivo-oja J. (2018), Was that capitalism? A future-oriented big data analysis of the English language area in the 19th and 20th century, Futures, Vol. 98, pp. 41-48 [SSCI 2.214, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2018), Market therapy? On intervention in the consociation with non-members, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 35 No. 1, pp. 127-138. [SSCI 1.052, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2017), Parsons, Luhmann, Spencer Brown. NOR design for double contingency tables, Kybernetes, Vol. 46 No. 8, pp. 1469-1482 [SCI .980, Scopus Q1, ABS*].
• Roth S., Clark C., Trofimov N., Mkrtchyan A., Heidingsfelder M., Appignanesi L., Pérez-Valls M., Berkel J., and Kaivo-oja J. (2017), Futures of a distributed memory. A global brain wave measurement (1800-2000), Technological Forecasting and Social Change,  Vol. 118, pp. 307-323 [SSCI 3.005, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, ABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S. and Kaivo-oja J. (2016), Is the future a political economy? Functional analysis of three leading foresight and futures studies journals, Futures, Vol. 81, pp. 15-26. [SSCI 1.414, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, ABS**].
• Roth S. (2014), Booties, bounties, business models. A map to the next red oceans, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 22 No. 4, 439-448 [Scopus Q3, CNRS*, VHB**].
• Roth S. (2014), Coining societies. An inter-functional comparative analysis of the Euro, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 27 No. 4, 99-118 [SSCI .400, Scopus Q3].
• Roth S. (2013), Dying is only human. The case death makes for the immortality of the person, Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 37-41 [ABS*].

Edited Books and Journal Issues

• Roth S., Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T., and Zazar K. (in progress), Coding society. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory, special issue of Information Technology & People [SSCI 5.60, Scopus Q1, CABS***, FNEGE**, VHB***].
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (in progress), Reprogramming. Observed with social systems theory, Journal of Organizational Change Management [SSCI 2.7, Scopus Q2, FNEGE**, CABS**]. 
• Roth S. and Sales A. (in progress), Programmes in management and organisation. Observed with social systems theory, special issue of Management Decision [SSCI 5.10, Scopus Q1, CABS**, FNEGE*, VHB***].
• Oberoi P., Roth S., Žilinskienė D., and Fritzsche A. (in progress), Disruption and destruction. Creative extensions of core concepts of innovation research, special issue of Creativity and Innovation Management [SSCI 4.20, Scopus Q1, CABS**, FNEGE**, VHB***].

• Roth S., Watson S., Dahms H. F., and Atanesyan A. (2025), Guiding distinctions of social theory. Analogue guidelines or digital transformers?, special issue of Current Sociology , Vol. 73 No. 4 [SSCI 2.50, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**].
• Roth S., Clausen L., and Zazar K. (2025), Guiding Distinctions: Observed with social systems theory, part of the special Luhmann Conferences 2023 and 2024 double issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Sales A., and Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T. (2025), Environments: Observed with social systems theory, part of the special Luhmann Conferences 2023 and 2024 double issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 42 No. 2 [SSCI 1.80, Scopus Q2, CABS**].
• Roth S., Clausen L., Neisig M., and Sales A. (2025), Guiding distinctions of management and organisation research, virtual special issue of Management Revue, Vol. 36 Nos. 1ff [ESCI 1.00, Scopus Q4, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Zazar K., Clausen L., and Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T.  (2024), Scientific communication: Observed with social systems theory, special issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 37 No. 3 [SSCI 1.267, Scopus Q3, CABS**].
• Roth S., Kaivo-oja J., von Assche K., and Dahms H. F. (2024), Simulation and dissimulation, virtual special issue of Futures [SSCI 3.788, Scopus Q1, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Roth S., Czakon W., Amann W., and Dana L.-P. (2023), The Great Reset of management and organization theory, virtual special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Management [SSCI 3.383, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, CABS**, VHB***].
• Roth S., Laursen K., and Harste G. (2022), Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory, special issue of Kybernetes [SCI 1.754, Scopus Q1, ABS*].
• Roth S., Mills A., Jemielniak D., and Lee B. (2021), Theory are Methods. Or are they? Methodological options for organization and management research, special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change Management [SSCI 1.262, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**].
• Roth S., Heidingsfelder M., Clausen L., and Laursen K. (2021), George Spencer Brown’s “Design with the NOR”. With related essays, Bingley: Emerald.
• Roth S., Dahms H., Welz F., and Cattacin S. (2019), Digital transformation of social theory, special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change [SSCI 3.815, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].

Selected Pre-2019 Issues and Volumes

• Heidingsfelder, M. and Roth, S. (2018) Media effects, special issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 25 No. 4.
• Roth S. (2017), Management and functional differentiation, special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 34 No. 2 [SSCI 1.034, Scopus Q2, ABS**].
• Roth S. (2015), Trends in functional differentiation, special issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 5-10. Foreword available for download here.
• Roth S., Schneckenberg D. and Tsai C. W. (2015), The gamification of innovation, special section of Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 24 No. 2 [SSCI 1.016, Scopus Q2, CNRS**, FNEGE**, ABS**].
• Roth S. (2014), Entrepreneurship and piracy, special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 22 No. 4 [Scopus Q3, CNRS*, FNEGE*, VHB **].
• Roth S., Scheiber L. and Wetzel R. (2010), Organisation multimedial. Zum polyphonen Programm der nächsten Organisation, Heidelberg, Carl Auer.

Monographs

• Kleve H., Roth S. und Simon F.B. (2020), Lockdown: Das Anhalten der Welt. Eine Debatte zur Domestizierung von Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesundheit. Heidelberg, Carl Auer.
• Amann W., Dchieche A., and Roth S. (2020), Understanding Islamic business. Borsdorf and Paris, Edition Winterwork and Knowledge@HEC.
• Roth S. (2010), Markt ist nicht gleich Wirtschaft. These zur Begründung einer allgemeinen Marktsoziologie. Heidelberg, Carl Auer Verlag.

Book Chapters

• Roth S. (2023) Funktionssystem. In Wirth J. and Kleve H. (eds.), Lexikon des systemischen Arbeitens. Heidelberg: Carl Auer Verlag.
• Clark C., Zhang L., and Roth S. (2022) What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus? A Google Ngram Analysis of the Chinese Language Area (1950–2008). In: Fiormonte, D., Ricaurte, P. and Chaudhuri, S. (eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
• Roth S. (2021) Der Staat des multifunktionalen Liberalismus. Zu den Entscheidungsprämissen der nächsten politischen Ökologie. In Bruns, W. und Ronge, V. (Hrsg.) Die Irritation der Gesellschaft durch den Lockdown. Weinheim: Beltz/Juventa.
• Roth S. (2021), NOR: Truth table, true distinction. In: Roth S., Heidingsfelder M., Clausen L., and Laursen K. (eds.), George Spencer Brown’s “Design with the NOR”. With related essays, Bingley: Emerald.

Selected Pre-2019 Chapters

• Roth S., Clark C., and Berkel J. (2017) The Fashionable Functions Reloaded. An Updated Google Ngram View of Trends in Functional Differentiation (1800-2000). In: Mesquita A. (ed.) Research Paradigms and Contemporary Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction, Hershey: IGI-Global, pp. 236-265.
• Roth S., Mkrtchyan A. and Vartikyan A. (2011), Armenia, in Barnett, G. and Golson, J. G. (eds), Encyclopedia of social networks, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publishing, pp. 56-57.
• Roth S. (2010), Zu den Grenzen des Gemeinplatzes vom wirtschaftlichen Markt: Ecksteine einer allgemeinen Marktsoziologie, in Pahl, H. und Meyer, L. (Hrsg.), Gesellschaftstheorie der Geldwirtschaft, Marburg, Metropolis.
• Рот С. (2009), Каковы перспективы краудсорсинга? Транснациональные стратегии открытых инноваций для предотвращения “утечки умов” из стран СНГ Перевод с английского, Пипия, Л. К. (сост.), Общественные и гуманитарные науки: тенденции развития и перспективы сотрудничества, М., Ин-т проблем развития науки РАН.
• Roth S. (2009), How far can crowdsourcing go? Discussing transnational open innovation strategies against the brain drain of CIS countries, in Pipiya I. (ed.), The Social Sciences and Humanities: Research Trends and Collaborative Perspectives, Moscow, ISS RAS.
• Roth S. (2005), Rinder, Genossen, Exportweltmeister. Zur Evolution einer strukturellen Kopplung, in Aderhold, J., Rosenberger, M. und Wetzel, R. (Hrsg.), Modernes Netzwerkmanagement, Wiesbaden, Gabler.

Translation

• Fuchs P. (2018) Mousing, Swiping, Thinking: Magical Conquest Techniques in the Context of Electronic Communications Media, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 25 No. 4, 59-71 (German-to-English translation, with Markus Heidingsfelder).