In recent years, common interests have led the fields of marketing and management to
differentiate themselves, even in similar research areas. This chapter provides an overview …

Government agencies struggle to address wicked problems because they are open-ended,
highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical …

In today's environment, Supply Chain Management (SCM) takes a key role in business
strategy. A major challenge is achieving high customer service level under a reasonable …

The increasing relevance of technology and its impact on our everyday life requires multi-
and trans-disciplinary studies in order to investigate the ways in which the Information and …

This paper offers novel research investigating systems thinking skills and their effect on
supply chain resilience challenges. Drawing upon positions from the systems sciences and …

The evolutionary path of science is traced along two distinct epistemologies: the naturalist
one and the social one. The first is understood as the study of the existing through rigorous …

Abstract The Theory of Constraints is a management tool for continuously improving
corporate performance. In the USA, it has been very successful, above all due to the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the principal success factors of a software
project structured upon the basis of the viable system model (VSM). Design/methodology …

This article discusses the potential for using the Viable System Model (VSM) as a new
approach in develo** accounting information systems. This article takes the form of a …

This work aims to identify the shortcomings that may impair or endanger the viability of
software projects, and attemps to reduce their failure rates. A diagnosis based on the Viable …