Steffen Roth (born 8 August 1976 in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the Franconia#Towns and cities, third-largest city in Franconia located in the north of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. It sp ...

) is an academic and author on

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

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

, and

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

. He is currently a Full Professor of Management at La Rochelle Business School and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

Academic Background

Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from

Chemnitz University of Technology Chemnitz University of Technology () is a public university in Chemnitz, Germany. With around 8,300 students, it is the third largest university in Saxony. It was founded in 1836 as ''Königliche Gewerbschule'' (Royal Mercantile College) and ...

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 university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

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 Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellen ...

)'' of Economic Sociology from the

University of Turku The University of Turku (, shortened ''UTU'') is a multidisciplinary public university with eight faculties located in the city of Turku in southwestern Finland. The university also has campuses in Rauma and Pori and research stations in Kevo ...

. In 2021, Kazimieras Simonavičius University in

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bestowed upon Roth the Title of Full Professor of Social Sciences.

Career

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

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; , , ), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the country. It is thus informally known as Armenia's ...

Department of Sociology. From 2012 to 2016 and 2017, respectively, he was a 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. As of 2021, he has been a Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Witten-Herdecke. From 2022 to 2024, Roth served as President of the Senate of Kazimieras Simonavičius University.

Research

Roth is a social systems theorist influenced by the works of

Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist. Niklas Luhmann is one of the most influential German sociologists of the 20th century. His thinking was ...

. His research focus is on theories and applications of functional differentiation in modern societies. Roth was among the first to apply

culturomics Culturomics is a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts. Researchers data mine large digital archives to investigate cultural phenomena reflected in l ...

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 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 is an Editor-in-Chief of '' Kybernetes'' as well as the Field Editor for social systems theory of ''

Systems Research and Behavioral Science A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is exp ...

''. He is also a Member of the Editorial Boards of ''

Sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

'' and ''Cybernetics and Human Knowing'', and a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik.

External links

Official site

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Steffen Living people 1976 births Writers from Würzburg People from Chemnitz Chemnitz University of Technology alumni University of Geneva alumni Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge German sociologists German systems scientists Organizational theorists French sociologists French systems scientists