Steffen Roth (born 8 August 1976 in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is ...

) is an academic and author on

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

, and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. He is currently Full Professor of Management at the La Rochelle Business School and Full Professor of Social Science as well as President of the Senate of

Kazimieras Simonavičius University Kazimieras Simonavičius University (previously: ''Vilnius Academy of Business Law (VABL)'', lt, Vilniaus verslo teisės akademija) is a private, state-accredited research university in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Ministry of Education and Science of ...

Academic Background

Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from the

Chemnitz University of Technology Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

in 2002, his PhD in Economics and Management ''(Dr. rer. pol)'' from the same university in 2010, and his PhD in Sociology from the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centu ...

in 2013. He holds a Habilitation (facultas docendi) in Economic and Environmental Sociology awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research and the Title of Docent (

venia legendi Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

) of Economic Sociology from the

University of Turku sv, Åbo universitet , latin_name = Universitas Aboensis , image_name = University of Turku.svg , motto = ''Vapaan kansan lahja vapaalle tieteelle'' , established = 1920 , type ...

Career

From 2010-2011, Roth was Visiting Professor and Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network Academic Fellow at the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

Department of Sociology. From 2012 to 2016 and 2017, respectively, he was tenured Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the

ESC Rennes School of Business Rennes School of Business formerly École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes is a French business school located in Rennes, the capital of Brittany, founded in 1990 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rennes. ESC Rennes is a ''Grande Éc ...

and Visiting Professor at the

International University of Rabat The International University of Rabat or UIR (french: Université Internationale de Rabat, UIR; ar, الجامعة الدولية للرباط) is a semi-public university founded in 2010 in Morocco. It delivers double-degrees, in collaboratio ...

. As of 2021, he has been a Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the

University of Witten-Herdecke Witten/Herdecke University is a private, state-recognized, nonprofit university in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was the first German private institution of higher education to receive accreditation as a "Universität", a status r ...

Research

Roth is a social systems theorist influenced by the works of

Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. Biography Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...

. His research focus is on theories and applications of functional differentiation in (post-) modern societies. 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.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). Further fields of research include multifunctional organizations and markets, the digital transformation of social theory, and foresight and future studies.

Service to the Scientific Community

Roth has been an Associate Editor of

Kybernetes ''Kybernetes'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of information and knowledge management exploring the complex relationships between information systems and management theory and practice to determine how humans develop meaningful and satisfyi ...

, and is the Field Editor for social systems theory of

Systems Research and Behavioral Science ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'' is a scientific journal for theory and research in the fields of systems sciences. It is the official publication of the International Federation for Systems Research. ''Systems Research and Behavioral ...

as well as a Member of the Editorial Board of the ''Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing''. Roth is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik.https://iuc.hr/about/governing-bodies Governing Bodies of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik

External links

Official site

References

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