This book offers a rigorous discussion on how we can understand economic systems through a complexity lens. In particular, the author investigates the relationships between the firms, the industries, and markets (micro, meso, macro relationships), in order to help us better understand the main challenges of a representation of the economy using the complex systems' theory. The author argues that the logic of governance in the paradigm of complex systemic rationality renounces anthropocentric vision of the organization and the possibility of total direction and control over systemic and intersystemic relations and accept a constructivist vision of these relations and their mutual interdependencies. Offering a novel perspective, this book contributes to improve our understanding of economic complex systems and how organizations at different levels interact.

Explores the various approaches to the micro-macro relationships Offers an underlying theoretical approach to the Economics of Complexity Offers a rigorous discussion on how we can understand economic systems

Autorentext

Clelia Mazzoni is Full Professor of Management at the Department of Economics of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (Italy). Her main research fields include the communication industry (from media publishing to mobile communication), e-mobility, market segmentation, competitive models, and the systemic analysis of relationships between firms and the environment.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Micro-macro relationships in the economics of complexity.- Chapter 2: Firm, sector, markets: the unavoidable questions.- Chapter 3: Pathways to interpret the micro-macro relationship and "turning points".- Chapter 4: The micro-macro relationship in complex systems theory: a different perspective.- Chapter 5: A possible re-interpretation of the micro-macro relationship in terms of complexity.- Chapter 6: Managing the micro-macro relationship within the framework of systemic rationality and implications for business management.