Systems Thinking and Viable Systems

Sergio Barile is Full Professor of Economics and Business Management (SECSP/08) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He holds the chair of “Economics and Business Management”, and of “Algorithms and Platforms for Business Decisions”. He boasts an academic and professional career of excellence characterised by long experience in running university, Master’s and PhD courses, heading the Department of Management and coordinating the PhD programme in Management, Banking and Commodity Sciences. He has served on administrative and supervisory bodies in public and private organisations. His areas of research range from business economics to systems theory. He is one of the main expert of reference for the studies on Viable Systems Approach in its various forms, in particular with reference to: governance and business management, decision theory, complexity theory. He is the author of more than one hundred and fifty national and international publications. His journal publications and books are cited by thousands of researchers worldwide and are the subject of growing interest.

1. Epistemological premises 2. Systems thinking 3. The firm as a viable system 4. The conceptual difference between decision making and problem solving 5. Possible decision-making areas 6. The viable system as a universal model for decision-making processes