Professor Steffen Roth is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University (YSU), and a highly accomplished and renowned scholar (h-index – 21 according to Scopus). He has been:

• Full Professor of Management at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France
• Founding Director of the Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany
• Founder and Director of Teeoree OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia
• Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, United Kingdom (see also: https://derroth.com/).

He is the initiator and organizer of the annual international Luhmann Conference dedicated to famous sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and held in Dubrovnik in Southern Croatia.

As a visiting professor at YSU’s Faculty of Sociology, he taught from 2010 to 2016 and has since maintained ongoing collaboration with the faculty on research projects, including joint publication of scholarly works.

Among Professor Roth’s most recent publications are:

• Roth S., Watson S., Möller S., Clausen L., Zazar K., Dahms H., Sales A., and Lien V. (2025), Guiding distinctions of social theory: results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus, Current Sociology , DOI: 10.1177/00113921251316685 [SSCI 1.90, Scopus Q1, FNEGE*, CABS**].
• Roth S. (2024), Spaceship Earth. A total institution, Ecological Economics, Vol. 223, 108243 [SSCI 7.000, Scopus Q1, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].
• Roth S., Schneckenberg D., Valentinov V., and Kleve H. (2023), Approaching management and organization paradoxes paradoxically: The case for the tetralemma as an expansive encasement strategy, European Management Journal, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 191-198 [SSCI 6.110, Scopus Q1, CNRS**, FNEGE**, CABS**, VHB***]. #3
• Roth S. (2023), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 451-459 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus Q2, CABS**]. ##
• Roth S. and Valentinov V. (2023), Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 331-345 [SSCI 2.957, Scopus Q1, CABS****].
• Roth S. (2021), The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 166, p. 120636 [SSCI 8.593, Scopus Q1, CNRS***, FNEGE***, CABS***, VHB***].