Doctor Steffen Roth is an academic and author on management, economics, and sociology.
Education
Steffen Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from the Chemnitz University of Technology in 2002, his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and Management (Doctor rer pol) from the same university in 2010, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of Geneva in 2013.
Career
He is currently Professor of Management and Organization at the ESC Rennes School of Business, France. 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.
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. 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.
Steffen Roth is furthermore engaged in research on multifunctional organizations and markets.
Views
He also published on (social) innovation as well as on next strategies for post-capitalism and degrowth.
Membership
Steffen Roth is ambassador and mentor of the European Academy of Management EURAM Early Colloquium and Network, full member of the German Academic Association for Business as well as member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the New 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 European Research Area-listed Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing and of the VHB-listed International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development.