Steffen Roth

Dr. Steffen Roth
Born (1976-08-08) August 8, 1976
Würzburg
Alma mater Chemnitz University of Technology, University of Geneva
Occupation Academic

Dr. Steffen Roth (born August 8, 1976 in Würzburg) is an academic and author on management, economics, and sociology. He is currently Professor of Management and Organization at the Rennes School of Business, France.

Academic Background

Steffen Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from the Chemnitz University of Technology in 2002, his PhD in Economics and Management (Dr. rer. pol) from the same university in 2010,[1] and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva in 2013.[2]

Career

From 2010-2011, Steffen Roth was Visiting Professor and Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network Academic Fellow at the Yerevan State University Department of Sociology, where he still is Affiliate Professor. He was also Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School Department of Management, Philosophy and Politics (2012), the University of Cagliari Department of Economics (2012), and the International University of Rabat School of Business (2012-2014). As of 2012, he is tenured Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the ESC Rennes School of Business.[3]

Research

Being a third generation social systems theorist influenced by the works of Niklas Luhmann, Steffen Roth's major research is on theories and applications of functional differentiation in (post-) modern societies.[4] Steffen Roth was among the first to apply culturomics in sociology, with one major result of this research being that the (self-) definition of modern societies as capitalist or economized may be inappropriate.[5][6]

Steffen Roth is furthermore engaged in research on multifunctional organizations and markets.[7][8][9] He also published on (social) innovation as well as on next strategies for post-capitalism[10] and degrowth.[9]

Service to the Scientific Community

Steffen Roth is ambassador and mentor of the European Academy of Management EURAM Early Career Colloquium and Network,[11] full member of the German Academic Association for Business Research as well as member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the New Research on Digital Societies (NERDS) research center at Kozminski University Warsaw, Poland, the Forschungskolleg Gesellschaft und Kontingenz, Berlin, Germany, and the International Academic Advisory Board of the Amrita Center for Responsible Innovations and Sustainable Enterprises, Amrita University, India.

He is member of the editorial boards of the ERA-listed Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing and of the VHB-listed International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development.

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/forschung/promotionen.php?jahr=2010 Promotionen an der TU Chemnitz 2010
  2. ↑ http://sociologie.cuso.ch/les-membres/alumni/ Alumni PhD program in Sociology at the University of Geneva
  3. ↑ https://www.esc-rennes.fr/index.php/fr/lecole/faculte/roth-steffen Faculty at Rennes School of Business
  4. ↑ Roth, S. and Schutz, A. (2015), "Ten systems. Toward a canon of function system", Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 11-31. (Pre-print available online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2491422).
  5. ↑ Roth, Steffen (2014) Fashionable Functions: A Google Ngram View of Trends in Functional Differentiation (1800-2000), International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 34-58 (online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2491422 )
  6. ↑ Roth, Steffen, Carlton Clark, and Jan Berkel (2016), "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, Forthcoming (online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2798759).
  7. ↑ Roth, S. (2014) The Multifunctional Organization: Two Cases for a Critical Update for Research Programs in Management and Organization, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 37-54 (online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192754)
  8. ↑ Roth, S. (2012) Leaving Commonplaces on the Common Place: Cornerstones of a Polyphonic Market Theory, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 43-52 (online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192754.)
  9. 1 2 Roth, Steffen. "Growth and function. A viral research program for next organizations" (PDF). International Journal of Technology Management.
  10. ↑ Roth, Steffen. "Free economy! On 3628800 alternatives of and to capitalism". Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics.
  11. ↑ http://eecn.org EURAM Early Career Network
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