Publications

Luhmann Conference special issues and volumes

• Roth S., Zazar K., Clausen L., and Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T. (2024). Scientific Communication. Observed with Social System Theory. Systemic Practice and Action Research.
• Roth S., Laursen K., and Harste G. (2022). Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory. Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5.
• Roth S., Heidingsfelder M., Clausen L., and Laursen K. (2021). George Spencer Brown’s “Design with the NOR”. With related essays, Bingley: Emerald.
• Febbrajo A. and Harste G. (eds.) (2013). Law and intersystemic communication. Understanding ‘structural coupling’, London: Ashgate.

Selected publications

• Hakobyan A. (in press). Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-12.
• Neisig M. (in press). The role of management science in forming next era semantics. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-11.
• Noe E. B. and Alrøe. H. F. (in press). University Research Centres, Scientific Freedom, and the Jester’s Paradox. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-14.
• Roth S. (in press), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, DOI: 10.1002/SRES.2882.
• Roth S. (in press), 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., Schneckenberg D., Valentinov V., and Kleve H. (in press), 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.
• Sakai K. (in press). Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-13.
• Sales A., Mansur J., and Roth S. (in press), 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. (2023). Digital transformation of management and organization theories: A research programme. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40 No. 3, pp. 451-459.
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2023), Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 331-345.
• Stichweh R. (2023). Moral im Grand Hotel Imperial. Dubrovnik, April 1976. Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 35-43.

• Clausen, L. (2022). Diabolical perspectives on healthy morality in times of COVID19. Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 1692-1709.
• 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.
• Räwel, J. (2021). An allergy of society: on the question of how a societal “lockdown” becomes possible. Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5, 1814-1832.
• 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.
• Taekke J. (2022). Algorithmic differentiation of society–a Luhmann perspective on the societal Impact of digital media. Journal of Sociocybernetics, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 2-23.
• Zazar K. (2022). Fighting the virus, “hunting the witches” – moralizing in public discourses during the coronavirus pandemic in Croatia, Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 1833-1848.

• Harste, G. (2021). The Habermas-Luhmann Debate. Columbia University Press.
• Heidingsfelder, M. and Lehmann, M. (2021). Weltgesellschaft im Ausnahmezustand? Weilerswist, Velbrück Wissenschaft.
• Neisig, M. (2021). Social systems theory and engaged scholarship: co-designing a semantic reservoir in a polycentric network. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 763-777.
• Räwel J. (2021), An allergy of society. On the question of how a societal “lockdown” becomes possible, Kybernetes, DOI: 10.1108/K-11-2020-0797.
• Roth S. (2021), The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 166, p. 120636.
• Roth S. (in press), The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective, European Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 538-544.

• Harste G. (2020). Business legitimacy, modernity, and organizational systems: corporate spirit, esprit de corps and corpus spiritus throughout history. In Handbook of Business Legitimacy. Springer.
• 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.
• Roth S., Valentinov V., Heidingsfelder M., and Pérez-Valls M. (2020), CSR beyond Economy and Society. A post-capitalist approach, Journal of Business Ethics, 165(3): 411-423.
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2020), East of nature. Accounting for the environments of social sciences, Ecological Economics, 176: 106734.
• 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, 11(4): 679-694.

• Harste G. (2016). The missing link in the philosophy of enlightenment. Reasonability, will and separation of powers in the philosophy of justice of H-F d’Aguesseau, Chancellor of France. In G. Baruchello et al. (eds.): Ethics, Democracy, and Markets, Aarhus University Press, pp. 104-143.
• Laursen K. B., and Noe E. (2017). The hybrid media of economy and moral: A Luhmannian perspective on value-based-food-chains. Journal of Rural Studies 56: 21-29.
• Neisig M. (2017).  Transition in Complex Polycentric Contexts: Trusting and Multifunctional Semantics, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 34(2): 163-181.
• Roth S. (2019), Digital transformation of social theory. A research update, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 146 No. September, pp. 88-93.
• 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, 149: 119759.