Call for papers to a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral
Sciences
Management and Function: From Added Values to Augmented Realities
The distinction of function systems such as the political system, the
economy, science, religion, or the legal system is considered a key
principle of modern societies. Modern man knows how to talk business and
when to avoid politics or religion in conversations; considers the buying of
votes as corruption; and differentiates show trials from normal cases.
Though these and similar differentiations are naturally applied by a
considerable part of the world population, the function system science
applies rather than studies functional differentiation. Thus we already find
countless definitions of contemporary societies as economized or sometimes
even aestheticized, while we still lack precise answers to the questions as
to what a function system is and how many function systems exist. What is
known so far at least is that function systems emerge from the use of
symbolically generalized communication media such as power, money, truth, or
belief, whose application recodes communication according to the individual
function system's function. Functional differentiation thus adds code values
to almost every aspect of social life, hence multiplying social realities,
and constantly re-/creating the augmented reality of modernity. Modern
organizations are therefore being rediscovered as oscillating, polyphonic,
heterophonic, multifinal, or multifunctional organizations, the observation
of which challenges monofunctional management concepts.
Deadline for manuscript submission: October 31, 2015. Official CFP including
information on possible topics and key dates scheduled for publication in
SRBS 31.6. Preview available for download:
http://wp.me/pvO07-DC
Contact/Submission Information
Submission to this special issue should count between 4,000 and 8,000 words
(including references, tables, figures, etc.). For further questions about
the issue and the appropriateness of a potential submission, please feel
free to contact issue editor:
Dr. Steffen Roth
Assistant Professor
ESC Rennes School of Business
2 Rue Robert d'Arbrissel
FR-35000 Rennes
http://steffen-roth.ch
CFP | MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTION: FROM ADDED VALUES TO AUGMENTED REALITIES
Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences Deadline October 31, 2015
Link: http://wp.me/pvO07-DC=