Piero Mella

Piero Mella is Full Professor of Business Economics and Control Theory in the

Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia. In the past, he has been the Dean of the

Faculty as well as the Director of its Department of Business Research. He has

authored dozens of publications (among which a treatise entitled Amministrazione

d’Impresa [Management of the Firm], UTET Press), and for years he has researched

systems theory from multiple perspectives. His recent essays about systems theory

include: The Holonic Revolution. Holons, Holarchies and Holonic Networks. The

Ghost in the Production Machine (Pavia University Press. Pavia, 2009), Systems

Thinking: Intelligence in Action (Springer, 2012), The Magic Ring: Systems

Thinking Approach to Control Systems (Springer, 2014) and The Combinatory

Systems Theory. Understanding, modeling and simulating collective phenomena

(Springer, 2017).