This article argues that analyses of value semantics in organisational image brochures, websites, and further official documents do not give information about an organisation's ethical performance. Based on a systems theoretical definition of values, the case is made for a distinction of...

The present article considers the economization of society a hypothesis rather than a fact. The hypothesis is tested against the results of a Google ngram viewer analysis of the most frequent function system references in the Google Books corpus for the years 1800-2000. Despite the remarkable...

Caucasian societies suffer from a tremendous brain drain to so-called more advanced societies. Against this background, the paper discusses crowdsourcing, a recent trend in open innovation, as a means of reducing or even inverting the brain drain of Caucasian societies.

Der vorliegende Aufsatz diskutiert Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten von Kommunitarismus und Sozialismus und schlägt vor, den Kommunitarismus als Einladung an den Sozialismus zu lesen, sein Verhältnis zum Liberalismus neu zu überdenken.

Die Zeiten, in denen Computer nur eine Funktion hatten, sind vorbei: Heutige Computer sind Kommunikationsmittel, Zeitnehmer, Kalender, Musikinstrument und -abspielgerät, Notizblock, Ablagesystem, Spielzeug, Wettervorhersage und Visitenkarte in einem. Die Organisation der Computergesellschaft...

We routinely trust organizations that convert belief, truth, health, power, or beauty into money. Nonetheless, we know almost nothing about the corresponding exchange rates. Based on a system theorist concept of functional differentiation and the Bourdieueconomic forms of capitals, the paper...

The first ambition of this paper is to present and argue for a concept of non-economic markets based on specific values (power, truth, justice, religion, etc.). The problem with these values is that they can neither be directly compared with money nor with each other: truth may be power, but how...