...Albrecht Fritzsche; Alexander Bohnert Purpose The article investigates the organisational transformation of a healthcare service provider due to the introduction of digital technology. Using social systems theory, it focusses on programmes setting the premises of decision communication...

...Shuang Liu Purpose This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding how artificial intelligence transforms organizational change through recursive reprogramming of decision premises. Drawing on Luhmann’s social systems theory, it conceptualizes AI as evolutionary communication medium...

... Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agriculture Change structures Decision premises Organizational change Sustainability Luhmann Social systems theory Transformation This paper explores the organizational structures that condition the sustainable...

.... Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on the social systems theory to advance the fit theory demonstrating the pertinence of macro social factors for the determination of person–organization (P–O) fit. Findings The result of this conceptual groundwork is a framework for the creation of highly...

.../approach The paper combines social systems theory with the concept of engaged scholarship based on Design Thinking, and illustrates how such a research position might be applied to problems of polycentric networks as a theoretical/methodological case. Findings The paper concludes on a possible role...

... 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Discovery Opportunity Business models Creation Social differentiation Social systems theory The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 sketches out the Luhmannian systems – theoretical approach to social...