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The Multifunctional Organization: Two Cases For A Critical Update For Research Programs In Management And Organization, Steffen Roth
The Multifunctional Organization: Two Cases For A Critical Update For Research Programs In Management And Organization, Steffen Roth
Dr. Steffen Roth
Organization and functional differentiation are considered key principles of modern societies. Yet, within organizational studies little research has been conducted on the interplay of function systems, organizations, and society. The few existing studies suppose trends to more functional polyphony. The cases presented in this article, however, support the idea that organizational multifunctionality is the standard case rather than a special case of organization. It is furthermore shown that organizations can change their function system preference and that the translation between function systems can be an organization’s main function. A Google Ngram view on functional differentiation finally furthers the idea that …
Dying Is Only Human. The Case Death Makes For The Immortality Of The Person, Steffen Roth Dr.
Dying Is Only Human. The Case Death Makes For The Immortality Of The Person, Steffen Roth Dr.
Dr. Steffen Roth
The claim of the present article is that human mortality makes a case for the discovery of the immortal nature of the person. Based on a clear distinction of the concepts of the human being and the person, human beings and persons are considered immortal insofar as both entities evidently do not qualify for a definition as living systems. On the one hand, human beings are presented as neither lifeless nor living systems. On the other hand, persons are introduced as lifeless systems and, as a result, immortal system. This claim is extended by the statement that, even if supposed …