MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTION. FROM ADDED VALUES TO AUGMENTED REALITIES | CFP to a Special Issue of Human Systems Management
Editor: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business, France
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 has as of yet hardly explored the forms and functions of functional differentiation. 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. (…)
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Contributions to the special issue must be submitted by November 15, 2014 via email
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Manuscripts should be prepared according to the HSM Author Guide available athttp://www.iospress.nl/journal/human-systems-management/and will be subject to peer-review in line with the HSM policy. The word count of manuscripts should range from 4000-8000 words.
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