Steffen ROTH
Enseignant-Chercheur - Professeur
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Pôle
Département académique Stratégie -
Domaines d'enseignement
Entrepreneuriat, Théories des organisations, Théorie Sociale, Management de l'Innovation, Gestion du Changement -
Campus
La Rochelle -
Langue(s) parlée(s)
Allemand, Anglais -
Domaines de recherche
Organisation and Management Theory, Systems Theory, Social Differentiation, Digital Sociology
Biographie
Le Dr Steffen Roth est titulaire d'un passeport allemand et est professeur en gestion à Excelia Business School et professeur de Sciences Sociales ainsi que président du Sénat à l'Université Kazimieras Simonavicius, à Vilnius. Il est également professeur invité en gestion et organisation à l'Université de Witten-Herdecke et membre du comité exécutif du Centre interuniversitaire de Dubrovnik, en Croatie. Steffen détient le titre de professeur associé (venia legendi) en Sociologie Économique à l'Université de Turku ; une habilitation (facultas docendi) en sociologie économique et environnementale délivrée par le ministère italien de l'éducation, de l'université et de la recherche ; un doctorat en sociologie de l'Université de Genève; et un doctorat en économie et gestion de l'Université de technologie de Chemnitz. Il est l'éditeur de terrain pour la théorie des systèmes sociaux de Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Les revues dans lesquelles ses recherches ont été publiées incluent Journal of Business Ethics, Sociology of Health & Illness, Ecological Economics, Administration and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Management Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production et Futures.
Son profil ORCID est disponible sur orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X et son profil Twitter sur https://twitter.com/derrothdotcom.
2021
Titre de Professeur des Universités en Sciences Sociales, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lituanie
2020
Title of Adjunct Professor (venia legendi) in Economic Sociology, University of Turku, Finlande
2018
Habilitation (facultas docendi) in Economic and Environmental Sociology, Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research
2025
Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
2022-2025
Member of the Executive Committee, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatie
2022-2024
Président du Senat, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Vilnius, Lituanie
2021
Titre de Professeur des Universités en Sciences Sociales, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Vilnius, Lituanie
2020
Title of Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Turku, Turku, Finlande
2018-2022
Professeur de recherche en sociologie digitale, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Vilnius, Lituanie
2018
Enseignant-Chercheur - Professeur, Excelia, La Rochelle, France
2016-2018
Enseignant-Chercheur - Professeur Associé, Excelia, La Rochelle, France
2016
Professeur honoraire de Sociologie, Université d'État d'Erevan, Yerevan, Armenia
2012-2017
Professeur Invité, Université Internationale de Rabat, Rabat, Maroc
2012-2016
Professeur Assistant, ESC Rennes, Rennes, France
2011-2012
Senior Researcher, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, Yverdon-les-Bains, Suisse
2011-2013
Professeur Invité, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Suisse
2011-2016
Professeur Associé Invité, Université d'État d'Erevan, Yerevan, Armenia
2010-2011
Professeur Associé , Université d'État d'Erevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Articles
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2026). Reimagining ESG: A tetralemma approach to multifunctional sustainability reporting. Organization and Environment. doi:10.1177/10860266251410473.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., KRÖNIG, F. K., BIELIAUSKAITĖ, J., AAL, E., PENNINGTON, M., CLAUSEN, L. (2026). Ideological Repurposing of Institutions of Higher Management Education. Historical Lessons and Contemporary Imperatives. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:10.1002/sres.70012.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2026). Organisation and Function: Reclaiming the Third Mandate of Organisation Theory and the Limits of Organisational Repurposing for Grand Challenges. Organization Studies. doi:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01708406261459050.
ROTH, S. (2026). The Digital Transformation of Social Research: On the Emulation of Theory within Theory and the Emergence of Repository-Based Academic Writing,. Kybernetes, 1 (9). doi:10.1108/K-03-2026-0688.
NAGEL, L., ROTH, S., KLEVE, H. (2026). Cybernetic Epistemology and Family Business Research: Toward Abductive Theorising of Recursive Family-Business Dynamics. Kybernetes. doi:10.1108/K-03-2026-0699.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., AAL, E., PENNINGTON, M., BIELIAUSKAITĖ, J., KRÖNIG, F. K. (2026). From Schools of Business to Schools of Ideology? A Systems-Theoretical Perspective on Popular Claims to Organisational Reprogramming. Management Decision. doi:10.1108/MD-02-2026-0431.
ROTH, S., LIEN, V. (2026). When programmes disagree about programmes: large language models, code poetry and the problem of programme–programme communication. Information Technology and People. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-02-2026-0241.
ROTH, S., WATSON, S., MÖLLER, S., CLAUSEN, L., ZAZAR, K., DAHMS, H., ... 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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921251316685.
SALES, A., ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2025). Reframing conventional entrepreneurship: A systemic case study of Buser. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. doi:10.1108/JSBED-11-2024-0598.
ROTH, S., CLAUSEN, L., MARGIT, N., SALES, A. (2025). Guiding distinctions of management and organisation research. An introduction. Management revue.
ROTH, S., SALES, A., VALENTINOV, V. (2025). Value plurality and multifunctional commensuration in organisation. A systems-theoretical approach. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3135.
ROTH, S. (2025). The Matrix Reloaded: A Revised Framework for the Inference of the Four Basic Forms of Social Differentiation. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3131.
ROTH, S., CLAUSEN, L., ZAZAR, K. (2025). Guiding distinctions: observed with social systems theory. An introduction. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 42 (2). doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3152.
ROTH, S., SALES, A., STINGL DE VASCONCELOS GUEDES, T. (2025). Environments: Observed with social systems theory. An introduction. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 42 (2). doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3148.
ROTH, S., WATSON, S., DAHMS, H., ATANESYAN, A. (2025). Guiding distinctions of social theory. Analogue guidelines or digital transformers? An introduction. Current Sociology. doi:10.1177/00113921251341658.
ROTH, S., SALES, A. (2025). Cybernetics and Systems Theories for the 21st Century. Introducing the New Aims and Scope of Kybernetes. Kybernetes.
ROTH, S., SALES, A. (2025). Multifunctional organisation. A systems-theoretical concept and its practical implications. Kybernetes.
ROTH, S., MANSUR, J., SALES, A., ZAZAR, K., DAHMS, H., ARNOLD, T., VALENTINOV, V. (2025). Big data insights into social macro trends: Expanding the horizon (1800-2018). Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3175.
ZAZAR, K., ROTH, S. (2025). Freedom of scientific inquiry and democracy. A systems-theoretical approach. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3174.
ROTH, S., SALES, A. (2025). Purpose and Organisation Studies: On the Limits to Organisational Repurposing. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3177.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2025). Multifunctional tetralemma. Framework for the strategic management of moral trade-offs. Journal of Business Ethics. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06138-y.
ROTH, S., SHEDLESKI, B. (2025). Multifunctional tetralemma. A systems-theoretical programme and its practical implications. Journal of Organizational Change Management. doi:10.1108/JOCM-10-2025-0928.
VALENTINOV, V., ROTH, S. (2024). Relationality and contractual safeguards in stakeholder theory. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 33 (2).
ZAZAR, K., ROTH, S. (2024). Political and economic instrumentalisation of science. Toward an extended concept of corruption. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:10.1002/sres.3001.
ROTH, S., ZAZAR, K., STINGL DE VASCONCELOS GUEDES, T., CLAUSEN, L. (2024). Scientific communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction and outlook to pure science for society. Systemic Practice and Action Research. doi:10.1007/s11213-024-09670-6.
KÖLLNER, T., ROTH, S. (2024). Family Businesses and Business Families in Cultural Context: Interdisciplinary Updates for Family Business Research. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-04-2022-0060.
ROTH, S. (2024). Spaceship Earth. A total institution. Ecological Economics, 223, 108243. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108243.
ARNOLD, T., ROTH, S. (2024). Social systems theory and family business: a perspective article. Systemic Practice and Action Research. doi:10.1007/s11213-024-09682-2.
SALES, A., MANSUR, J., VALENTINOV, V., ROTH, S. (2024). Willing unwillingness. A Luhmannian perspective on followership and leadership in organizations. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3080.
ARNOLD, T., ROTH, S., KLEVE, H. (2024). Double binds in dialogue: Unraveling paradoxical communication in business families and family businesses Authors. Management revue.
ROTH, S., SALES, A., CLAUSEN, L. (2024). Rainmaking: Observed with social systems theory. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:10.1002/sres.3101.
ROTH, S., KISKIENE, A., GAIŽAUSKIENĖ, D., KAIVO-OJA, J. (2024). N-factorial scenarios. A systems-theoretical approach to scenario-planning. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3120.
ROTH, S. (2024). The state as creative destroyer. A systems perspective on entrepreneurship by organised monopolies on violence. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-05-2024-0463.
ROTH, S. (2024). What is in organisation? Contents of a self-contained container. Management revue.
ROTH, S. (2023). Truth tables, true distinctions. Paradoxes of the source code of science. Systemic Practice and Action Research. doi:10.1007/s11213-023-09640-4.
ROTH, S., CZAKON, W., AMANN, W., 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, 39 (3), 101277. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101277.
ROTH, S., KAIVO-OJA, J. (2023). Strategic foresight for competitive advantage: A future-oriented business and competitive analysis techniques selection model. International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy.
SCHNECKENBERG, D., ROTH, S., VELAMURI, V. (2023). Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making. Journal of Business Research, 162 (July), 113883. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113883.
ROTH, S. (2023). Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al.. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 39 (3), 101278. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101278.
ARNOLD, T., KLEVE, H., 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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2962.
ROTH, S. (2023). Paradox and family business: A perspective article. Journal of Family Business Management. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-07-2023-0101.
ROTH, S., KAIVO-OJA, J., VAN ASSCHE, K., DAHMS, H. (2023). Expressions of untruth, suppressions of truth. A 21st century introduction to “Simulation and Dissimulation”. Futures. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103283.
VALENTINOV, V., ROTH, S. (2023). Stakeholder theory: exploring systems-theoretic and process-philosophic connections. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2970.
ROTH, S., NAGEL, L., KLEVE, H. (2023). Theory of the third: A cybernetic approach to conflict dynamics in business families. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:10.1002/sres.2977.
ROTH, S., LAURSEN, K., HARSTE, G. (2022). Moral communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction. Kybernetes.
ROTH, S., IONESCU, A. M., CLIPA, A.-M., TURNEA, E.-S., CLIPA, C.-I., BEDRULE-GRIGORUTA, M. V. (2022). The impact of innovation framework conditions on corporate digital technology integration: institutions as facilitators for sustainable digital transformation. Journal of Business Economics & Management..
ROTH, S. (2022). Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2882.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2022). Chester Barnard’s Theory of the Firm: An Institutionalist View. Journal of Economic Issues, 56 (3), 707-720.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2022). Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension. Sociology of Health and Illness.
ROTH, S., SALES, A., MANSUR, J. (2022). Fit for functional differentiation. New directions for personnel management and organizational change bridging fit theory and social systems theory. Journal of Organizational Change Management. doi:10.1108/JOCM-03-2022-0061.
ROTH, S., AUGUSTINAITIS, A., KAIVO-OJA, J., LAUREUS, T., KISKIENE, A., BZHALAVA, L. (2022). Evaluation of the implementation of smart specialisation strategy in the Lithuanian industry. Journal of Business Economics & Management., 23 (6), pp. 1299–1314.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2022). Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems-theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2925.
ROTH, S., SCHNECKENBERG, D., VALENTINOV, V., KLEVE, H. (2022). Approaching management and organization paradoxes paradoxically: The case for the tetralemma as an expansive encasement strategy. European Management Journal. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2021.12.002.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2021). Chester Barnard’s systems-theoretic approach to organization theory: a reconstruction. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
ROTH, S., GROTHE-HAMMER, M. (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.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., PIES, I. (2021). Social goals in the theory of the firm: a systems theory view. Administration and Society.
ROTH, S. (2021). The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet. Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2021). Chester Barnard’s theory of the firm: an institutionalist view. Journal of Economic Issues.
ROTH, S. (2021). Draw your organization! A solution-focused theory- method for business school challenges and change. Journal of Organizational Change Management.
ROTH, S., MILLS, A., LEE, B., JEMIELNIAK, D. (2021). Theory as method. Introduction to supertheoretical options for organization and management research. Journal of Organizational Change Management.
ROTH, S., SALES, A., GROTHE-HAMMER, M., AZAMBUJA, R. (2021). From play to pay: A multifunctional approach to the role of culture in post- merger integration. Management Decision.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2020). East of nature. Accounting for the environments of social sciences. Ecological Economics, 176, 106734. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106734.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V. (2020). Chester Barnard’s systems-theoretic approach to organization theory: a reconstruction. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28 (5). doi:DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2021.1877759.
ROTH, S. (2020). The Great Reset . Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 166, 120636. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120636.
ROTH, S. (2020). Draw your organization! A solution-focused theory-method for business school challenges and change. Journal of Organizational Change Management. doi:10.1108/JOCM-06-2020-0163.
ROTH, S., KLEVE, H., KÖLLNER, T., WETZEL, R. (2020). The tetralemma of the business family. A systemic approach to business-family dilemmas in re- search and practice. Journal of Organizational Change Management.
ROTH, S., CLAUSEN, L., MÖLLER, S. (2020). COVID-19. Scenarios of a superfluous crisis. Kybernetes.
ROTH, S. (2020). Weak Evidence for Strong Pandemic Interventions. A 2019 Who Warning for the Current Covid-19 Crisis. Kybernetes.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., CLAUSEN, L. (2020). Dissecting the empirical-normative divide in business ethics: the contribution of systems theory, Sustainability Accounting. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal.
ROTH, S., HIRSCHMANN, T., HARTLEY, N. (2020). Can we build resilience by way of creativity? Artistic ventures in a London hospice. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM).
ROTH, S. (2019, Avril). Heal the world. A solution-focused systems therapy approach to environmental problems. Journal of Cleaner Production, 216 (10), pp. 504-510.
ROTH, S. (2019). The open theory and its enemy. Implicit moralisation as epistemological obstacle for general systems theory. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 36 (3), 1-8. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2590.
ROTH, S., SCHWEDE, P., VALENTINOV, V., PÉREZ-VALLS, M., KAIVO-OJA, J. (2019). Harnessing big data for a multifunctional theory of the firm. European Management Journal. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.07.004.
ROTH, S., SANTONEN, T., HEIMSTÄDT, M., CLARK, C., TROFIMOV, N., KAIVO-OJA, J., ... SALES, A. (2019). government.com? Multifunctional cabinet portfolio analysis of 201 national governments. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 32 (6), 621-639 p. doi:10.1108/JOCM-10-2018-0290.
ROTH, S. (2019). Digital transformation of social theory. A research update. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 146 (September), 88-93. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.05.016.
ROTH, S., LEYDESDORFF, L., KAIVO-OJA, J., SALES, A. (2019). Open Coopetition: When Multiple Players and Rivals Team Up. Journal of Business Strategy, 41 (6), 31-38.
ROTH, S. (2019). Dissecting the empirical-normative divide in business ethics: The contribution of systems theory. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print). doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-03-2019-0107.
ROTH, S., SCHWEDE, P., VALENTINOV, V., ZAZAR, K., KAIVO-OJA, J. (2019). Big data insights into social macro trends (1800-2000): A replication study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
ROTH, S., M. G.WILL, V.VALENTINOV, " From nonprofit diversity to organizational multifunctionality: a systems-theoretical proposal", Administration and Society, Août 2018, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 1015-1036
ROTH, S., "Was that capitalism? A future-oriented big data analysis of the English language area in the 19th and 20th century", Futures, 2018, vol. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2017.12.009, pp. online first
ROTH, S., "The cash is in the medium, not in the machine: Toward the golden moments of 3D printing", International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2018, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 5-15
KAIVO-OJA, J., O.KUUSI, T.AHLQVIST, R.LINTURI, S.ROTH, "New industrial platforms and radical technology foresight: the case of 3D printing in Finland and Europe", International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2018, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 65-84
VALENTINOV, V., S.ROTH, M.WILL, "Stakeholder theory: A Luhmannian perspective", Administration and Society, 2018, vol. online first
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., KAIVO-OJA, J., DANA, L.-P. (2018). Multifunctional organisation models. A systems-theoretical framework for new venture discovery and creation. Journal of Organizational Change Management, online first. doi:10.1108/JOCM-05-2018-0113.
ROTH, S., VALENTINOV, V., HEIDINGSFELDER, M., PEREZ-VALLS, M. (2018). CSR Beyond Economy and Society: A Post-capitalist Approach. Journal of Business Ethics, ONLINE.
ROTH, S., ET AL., "Futures of a distributed memory. A global brain wave measurement (1800-2000)", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Avril 2017, vol. 118, no. April, pp. 307-323
ROTH, S., A.SALES, J.KAIVO-OJA, "Multiplying the division of labor: functional differentiation of the next key variables in management ", Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2017, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-207
ROTH, S., J.KAIVO-OJA, L.WESTERLUND, "Futures of robotics. Human work in digital transformation", International Journal of Technology Management, 2017, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 176-205
ROTH, S., "Parsons, Luhmann, Spencer Brown. NOR design for double contingency tables", Kybernetes, 2017, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1469-1482
ROTH, S., "Marginal economy. Growth strategies for post-growth societies", Journal of Economic Issues, Décembre 2017, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1033-1046
ROTH, S., "Serious gamification. On the redesign of a popular paradox", Games and Culture, 2017, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 100-111
ROTH, S., "Growth and function: a viral research program for next organisations", International Journal of Technology Management, 2016, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 296-309
ROTH, S., J.KAIVO-OJA, "Is the future a political economy? Functional analysis of three leading foresight and futures studies journals", Futures, 2016, vol. 81, no. August, pp. 15-26
Chapitres d'ouvrage
ROTH, S. (2021). Der Staat des multifunktionalen Liberalismus. Zu den Entscheidungsprämissen der nächsten politischen Ökologie. Bruns, W. und Ronge, V. (Hrsg.) Die Irritation der Gesellschaft durch Lockdown. Beltz Juventa.
ROTH, S. (2021). NOR: Truth table, true distinction (1st edition ed.). dans Roth S., Heidingsfelder M., Clausen L., and Laursen K. (Eds.), George Spencer Brown’s “Design with the NOR”. With related essays (pp. 33-39). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Communications dans une conférence sans acte
ROTH, S., "Making and unmaking of capitalism. A systemic therapy approach" dans 3rd conference European Sociological Association, 2017, Athènes, Grèce
Articles de presse
ROTH, S. - "Results from the first global brain wave measurement show power, not money, is the new religion- The Conversation" - 2017