[7] Malik analyses complexity by applying management cybernetics in an interdisciplinary combination of methods and on the basis of different philosophies of science.

From his wholistic, system-oriented standpoint, he criticizes pure shareholder value orientation and education programs in business administration that in his opinion mostly teach too limited views on economics and management.

[8] He argues that applying the laws, models and methods of management cybernetics, enables an organization to function more effective- and efficiently.

With this knowledge of cybernetics applied in any societal organization including the political sphere, he asserts that a “New World of Functioning” can be achieved that will benefit all society.

[10][11] Malik is a jury member of the "Top 100" award for the most innovative companies of the German Mittelstand.

[16][17] In January 2010 he was awarded the "Heinz von Foerster Prize" for organizational cybernetics at the University of Hagen.

It is the highest award the Chinese government grants to "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress".