This article aims to challenge the prevailing economic bias in studies of organised valuation and commensuration by exploring the broader plurality of values that organisations must manage. The article draws on social systems theory in the tradition of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann to...

Why are the public, private, and nonprofit sectors increasingly difficult to distinguish? This paper offers a new systems theory-based explanation. We argue that organizations today must respond simultaneously to demands from multiple function systems—legal, economic, political, scientific,...

Der digitale Wandel hat öffentliche Beobachtungs- und Beeinflussungsbeziehungen grundlegend verändert. In den traditionellen Massenmedien vermittelt der professionelle Journalismus zwischen Quellen und Publikum und trifft alleine Publikationsentscheidungen. Im Internet wird dieses...