Today’s world is characterized by increasing complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change. Factors such as digital transformation, global value chains, climate change, geopolitical tensions, and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) influence how public and private organizations design strategies, operating models, and decision-making processes. In such an environment, traditional linear analytical models often prove insufficient. Organizations operate within interconnected, adaptive, and nonlinear systems, which require analytical tools capable of capturing relationships, dynamics, and feedback loops. Systems thinking facilitates this by enabling researchers and practitioners to view organizations as open systems, identify causal structures and leverage points, and design strategies that are more resilient, flexible, and adaptive. This systemic perspective is closely linked with service-dominant logic, decision support systems (DSS), data- and AI-driven decision-making, and value co-creation with stakeholders. Systems thinking is therefore an important research approach not only in management studies, but also in economics, political science, and public administration, supporting interdisciplinary inquiry into complex contemporary challenges.
The seminar will introduce participants—including faculty members, early-career researchers, and PhD candidates—to the foundations, principles, and research applications of systems thinking. Participants will gain insights into how this approach can enhance theory building, methodological choices, and analytical practices in research.
Speaker:
Luca Carrubbo, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Political and Communication Sciences at the University of Salerno, Italy. Professor Carrubbo’s expertise lies in the domain of business management, and accordingly, his teaching includes modules such as Management, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Decision Making. Since 2012, he has been a Visiting Professor at Masaryk University of Brno (CZ) for the course Marketing Strategies in Service Business, part of the T-shaped international educational program funded by SSMED. Luca Carrubbo has been a member of AIDEA, SIM, and SIMA Associations since 2017, an ASVSA member since 2011, and since 2019 a Council Member of SIMAS Interdepartmental Research Centre focused on Innovation Systems and Sustainability Management.
Programme:
- Welcome address by: Paweł Wyrozębski, Ph.D., Dean of the SGH Doctoral School
- Seminar led by: Luca Carrubbo, Ph.D., University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
- Moderated by: Radosław Malik, Ph.D., International Economic Policy Unit (ZMPE) and Anna Visvizi, Ph.D., Deputy Dean of the SGH Doctoral School
Should you have any questions regarding the event, please send your message directly to rmalik@sgh.waw.pl or avisvi@sgh.waw.pl
The seminar is organized in the framework of the implementation of the: SGH Regional Initiative for Excellence (RID) | RID Seminars
Financed by the Minister of Science under the “Regional Excellence Initiative” Programme.
SGH, al. Niepodległości 162, building G, room 152
SGH International Economic Policy Unit, SGH Doctoral School