Release | Willing unwillingness. A Luhmannian perspective on followership and leadership in organizations

We are excited to share that our paper, Willing unwillingness. A Luhmannian perspective on followership and leadership in organizations, has been published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science! This is not just another piece about leadership being a top-down power game. No, what we uncovered goes far deeper. Through our research, we explored the paradox […]

8th EURAM Early Career Colloquium | 5-7 March 2017 in Rabat

The European Academy of Management Early Career Network invites advanced PhD-students, Postdocs, and recently appointed Lecturers or Assistant Professors in management and cognate fields of research to meet peers, mentors, and members of the EURAM top management team at the 8th EURAM Early Career Colloquium on “Impact” March 5-7, 2017 @ Rabat Business School Co-hosted by La […]

CFP | Next Management Theory track @EURAM 2016 in Paris

Call for Papers to the T 14_01 Next Management Theory track at the EURAM Annual Conference in Paris, June 1-4, 2016 Next Management Theory track invites contributions to the fields of management and organization theory. We welcome papers that address the general significance of theorizing or reappraise classical key concepts and their adequacy to the post-millenium […]

Call | Management and Function: From Added Values to Augmented Realities

Call for papers to a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science (ABS2*) Management and Function: From Added Values to Augmented Realities Guest Editor: Dr. Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France The distinction of function systems such as the political system, the economy, science, religion, or the legal system is considered a key principle of […]

Post | The single player mode of decision

The single player mode of decision: Management as strategic unobservation of organization A response to Thomas Hirschmann’s shout out Abstract: Management appears whenever we aim to observe organization as guide for or outcome of individual behavior. Organizations are systems of decision. Organizations appear if we observe chains of decision rather than chains of individual behaviors, with […]