Sergio Barile is a Full Professor of Economics and Business Management at Sapienza University of Rome, where he has directed the Department of Management and the Ph.D. program in "Management, Banking and Commodity Sciences." His research areas focus on decision-making processes, management, and innovation. In particular, drawing from cybernetics, he has proposed and developed the Viable System Approach (ASV), whose concepts of "informational variety," "consonance," and "resonance" represent some of the most significant advancements made in managerial sciences in recent years. He is the founder of ASVSA—Association for Research on Vital Systems (www.asvsa.org)—and the founder of the Journal of Managerial Studies.