The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet

Drawing on the example of “The Great Reset”, a policy agenda https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/  promoted by the World Economic Forum in response to the global coronavirus crisis, this lecture explores the idea that we might be currently facing an epochal transition from capitalism to “restorism” and, thus, to a society whose self-definition is dominated by (political) observations of individual, institutional, and planetary health issues as well as  concepts of restoration or healing.

Lecturer: Steffen Roth is Full Professor of Management at the La Rochelle Business School, France, and Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. He holds a Habilitation in Economic and Environmental Sociology awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research; a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva; and a PhD in Management from the Chemnitz University of Technology. He is the field editor for social systems theory of Systems Research and Behavioral Science. The journals his research has been published in include Journal of Business Ethics, Ecological Economics, Administration and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Organizational Change Management, European Management Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Futures. His ORCID profile is available at orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X.