Steffen Roth (born 8 August 1976 in Würzburg) is an academic and author on management, economics, and sociology.

Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from Chemnitz University of Technology in 2002, his PhD in Economics and Management (Dr. rer.

[3] From 2010-2011, Roth was Visiting Professor and Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network Academic Fellow at the Yerevan State University Department of Sociology.

Roth was among the first to apply culturomics in sociology, with one major result of this research being that the (self-) definition of modern societies as capitalist or economized may be inappropriate.

[6][7][8] Further fields of research include multifunctional organizations and markets,[9][10] the digital transformation of social theory,[11] and foresight and future studies.