Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
United Kingdom
fellow
Steffen Roth
2026-2027
Home institution
Excelia Business School, La Rochelle
Country of origin (home institution)
France
Discipline(s)
Administration and management sciences; Information and communication sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; Others; Social Sciences
Theme(s)
Artificial Intelligence; Digital Society; Other
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Steffen Roth FRSA is a Visiting Fellow at both CRASSH and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Management at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France.
He is also Visiting Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany, and Full Professor of Social Sciences at Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, where he is Founding Director of the Next Society Institute.
Research Project
Digital transformation of social theory
His research develops social systems theory with a particular focus on the digital transformation of social theory and, as a subfield, the digital transformation of management and organisation theory. His current interests include functional differentiation, organisational multifunctionality, guiding distinctions of social theory, organisational decision programmes, and artificial intelligence. Recent work examines how digital transformations challenge established concepts of communication, organisation, and theory; how organisations respond to grand societal challenges; and how competing social functions, values, and programmes are negotiated under conditions of incommensurability.
Steffen is Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes and Associate Editor of Systems Research and Behavioral Science and the Journal of Organizational Change Management
Research Interests:
Social systems theory; Management theory; organisation theory; Communications