Publications

Luhmann conference publication activities

• 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 member publications

• Roth S. (in press), The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective, European Management Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.05.005.
• Roth S. (in press), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, DOI: 10.1002/SRES.2882 [SSCI 1.750, Scopus, CABS**].
• 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.

• Clausen, L. (2022). Diabolical perspectives on healthy morality in times of COVID19. Kybernetes, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 1692-1709.
• Sales A., Roth S., Grothe-Hammer M., and Azambuja R. (in press), 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.
• 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.

• 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.