The Symposium aims to address the causes and reasons of the actual economic crisis from the economic, financial, managerial and entrepreneurial perspectives.
In particular the symposium will focus on the epistemological, theoretical, methodological, technical and practical contributions of the systemic approach from a disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective (finance, management, engineering, economics, etc.) to shape an agenda to address the present global economic and social crisis.
The official language of the conference is English and the conference is structured into 5 panels, each one lasting about 4 hours.

PANEL TRACKS:
- Systems thinking in business science. a need for a paradigm shift - Chair: Raul Espejo - WOSC
- [Corporate] Social Responsibility. an approach to overcome the crisis - Chair Matjaz Mulej - IASCYS
- The paradigm shift in consumer culture: cultural and economic systems in perspective - Chair: John Schouten - Aalto University, Finland
- economic and financial systems. new challenges and solutions proposals
- Strategic management in the time of crisis. Challenges and new approaches