Based on papers from the 4th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium (BSLAB) in 2016, this volume contributes to the business management, organizational and innovation literature by providing insights on the antecedents of systems thinking in the business systems domain. The Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium addresses current global economic and social challenges from a systemic perspective, drawing from the domains of management, economics, engineering and sociology. In particular, the 2016 Symposium focuses on the epistemological, theoretical, methodological, technical and practical contributions that represent advancements in the theory and practice of governing business systems to address present and future challenges in the global economy. The contributions explore the application of systems thinking to governance, involving the introduction of new administrative organizational and managerial activities aimed toward organizational innovation and control.

Volume 2, Issue 1 - January-June 2013 - The Relationship between Service Quality, Economic and Switching Costs in Retail Banking (Faruk An l Konuk, Filiz Konuk) - Reationship between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence for Malaysia (Mohd Shahidan Shaari, Nor Ermawati Hussain, Mohammad Shariff Ismail) - Shifting the Paradigm of Return on Investment: Towards a Composite Index to Measure Overall Corporate Performance (Roland Bardy, Maurizio Massaro) - Organizing Innovation: Do Management Control Systems Contribute to Knowledge Management? (Maurizio Massaro, Roland Bardy, Filippo Zanin) - Interest Rate Risk in Banking: a Theoretical and Empirical Investigation through a Systemic Approach (Enzo Scannella, Dario Bennardo) - Insights about Integrated Marketing Communication in Small-and-Medium-sized Italian Enterprises (Annamaria Esposito) - Viral Marketing Communication: just sales or more? (Angela Carida, Maria Colurcio) - Human Decision Making in Business. Implications and application operations of neuroscience for business decisions (Thomas Baumann, Hans-Dietrich Haasis, Tina Nehlsen-Pein) - Productivity increase within reformation process based on motivation theories application (Konstantinos Zapounidis, Glykeria Kalfakakou, Georgios Aretoulis)

Business Systems Review is a peer reviewed, half-yearly journal, published by the non-profit association Business Systems Laboratory. BSR publishes high level and innovative theoretic, qualitative, quantitative and empirical contributions of researchers and practitioners in the business systems field. The journal aims to endow a multi-field approach with a special emphasis on the systemic approach for business. Content: - Zhelyu Vladimirov, Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Kaloyan Ganev. SIGNIFICANCE OF GLOBALIZATION-SPECIFIC FACTORS FOR SME COMPETITIVENESS: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND AN EMPIRICAL TEST. - Fernando Buendia, Carlos Lopez-Hernandez. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND LOCATION OF LARGE FIRMS. - Salvatore Ferri, Lucia Aiello. CULTURAL RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - Kalu Ebi Uma, Ikechukwu D. Nwaka, George Enwere. RESTRUCTURING URBAN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND HOUSING PROBLEMS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF NIGERIA - Robert L. Kachur, Warren J. Kleinsmith Jr. THE EVOLUTION TO THE CLOUD - ARE PROCESS THEORY APPROACHES FOR ERP IMPLEMENTATION LIFECYCLES STILL VALID? - Barnim G. Jeschke, Nils Mahnke. AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DECISION-MAKING IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

Business Systems Review Volume 2, Issue 2, Special Issue - Selected and revised papers from the First Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium "The Economic Crisis. Time for a Paradigm Shift. Towards a Systems Approach." University of Valencia - Faculty of Economics, January 24-25, 2013.

Business Systems Review (BSR- ISSN 2280-3866) is a peer reviewed, half-yearly journal, published by the non-profit association Business Systems Laboratory. BSR publishes high level and innovative theoretic, qualitative, quantitative and empirical contributions of researchers and practitioners in the business systems field. The journal aims to endow a multi-field approach with a special emphasis on the systemic approach for business. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be systemic but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of business systems. All papers are subject to strict double blind peer review by the international research community.

This book comes from the author's PhD thesis for the PhD in "Economia e Finanza nel Governo dell'Impresa" ("Business administration and finance for firm's governance" at University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy.The work was written in 2003 during the author's research semester at the Faculty of Economics of University of Nagasaki in Japan. The book attempts to explain why and how the lean production is deeply rooted in the Japanese culture and the Japanese business environment. In order to understand the Japanese supply chain we first have to understand what Japanese do in their factories and how they do it. Considering production and business environment as a unique fields of study and research the book discusses and sheds the light on the links among them in the Japanese business contest. This is done analyzing the single elements of lean production and JIT while considering the uniqueness of Japanese business system, in order to demonstrate the relations between the business system and the organization of production and supply chain in Japan.

Oggi il ruolo delle Universita non si limita piu soltanto alle tradizionali attivita di formazione e di ricerca. La cosiddetta Seconda Rivoluzione Accademica ha attribuito alle Universita una "terza missione," che consiste nella valorizzazione e commercializzazione della conoscenza accedemica sul mercato. L'Universita diviene cosi "entrepreneurial university" creando valore non solo in termini di conoscenza ma anche di innovazione e sviluppo economico. Il libro intende approfondire il ruolo che le Universita rivestono nel processo di trasferimento di conoscenza innovativa al mercato tramite la costituzione di imprese spin-off. Viene evidenziato come, attraverso il supporto di apposite strutture definite "incubatori" universitari, l'universita sia in grado di creare l'humus per dar vita a start-up innovative, in grado di competere e contribuire allo sviluppo economico.