Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization CTO

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to share two important updates that mark the next phase in the evolution of Kybernetes.

First, our new editorial, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/k-07-2025-330/full/html, outlines the renewed aims and scope of Kybernetes, reaffirming our commitment to second-order cybernetics, systems-theoretical inquiry, and theory-as-method. We invite you to explore the vision that will guide our editorial direction, our expanded editorial team, and the redefinition of Kybernetes as the premier venue for systemic and reflexive scholarship.

Second, we are excited to introduce a new article format: the Theory Transfer and Impact Article (TTIA). TTIA contributions demonstrate how cybernetic and systems-theoretical concepts span boundaries and inform practical contexts. We invite you to read the first exemplary TTIA, co-authored by the co-editors-in-chief, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/k-05-2025-1387/full/html, which introduces the concept of the multifunctional organisation, a systems-theoretical response to the growing complexity of organisational environments.

Thank you for your ongoing support of Kybernetes. We look forward to your future contributions … as authors, reviewers, and members of our international systems community.

Kind regards,

Steffen Roth & Augusto Sales
Co-Editors-in-Chief, Kybernetes

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Professor Steffen Roth

Full Professor of Management, Excelia Business School La Rochelle, France
Full Professor of Social Sciences, Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK

myURL: http://derroth.com
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X
X: derrothdotcom

Recent publications

GUIDING DISTINCTIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY. Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus @CS: https://wp.me/pvO07-24Z

THE STATE AS CREATIVE DESTROYER: A systems perspective on entrepreneurship by organised monopolies on violence @IJEBR: https://wp.me/pvO07-24C

RAINMAKING. Observed with social systems theory @SRBS: https://wp.me/pvO07-23o

SPACESHIP EARTH. A total institution @EcolEc: https://wp.me/pvO07-1Zy

TRUTH TABLES, TRUE DISTINCTIONS. Paradoxes of the source code of science @SPAA: https://wp.me/pvO07-1Pu

HEALTH BEYOND MEDICINE. A planetary theory extension @SH&I: https://wp.me/pvO07-1ID
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