To address “nowadays challenges” (i.e. digital and energy transitions, social and economic sustainability, global crises) new approaches are needed for knowledge and innovation management in business environments, taking into account the increasing complexity of organisations and innovation ecosystems.
Complexity today represents a useful approach to adequately address research issues in the management of knowledge and innovation systems. Indeed, these systems are Complex Adaptive Systems characterised by non-linear relationships between their constitutive elements, heterogeneity, self-reflexivity, emergent properties, self-organisation, expectations, and continuous dynamic adaptation.
Complex systems are composed of interdependent agents that can be found anywhere on multiple scales, from the macro-meso level, which includes industries, markets, and ecosystems, to the micro level, which involves firms, work teams, and individuals. In particular, through the complex systems approach it is possible to study the ecosystems in which organisations evolve and the dynamics of knowledge and innovation.
The aim of this track is to attract theoretical, methodological, empirical, and practical contributions that use complexity to address knowledge and innovation management issues in business environments, considering multi-dimensional sustainability impacts.
Particularly appreciated are the papers that adopt innovative methodologies rooted in Complexity Science (e.g.: Networks and Social Network Analysis, Agent-based modelling and simulation, Systems Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence , etc..). We invite researchers who investigate the drivers and issues related to complexity in knowledge and innovation management systems, value chains, business ecosystems, supply chains in different business sectors, and analyze the relationship between complexity and sustainability impacts at the environmental, economic, and social levels.

Giovanna Ferraro, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Cristina Ponsiglione, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Linda Ponta, University of Genoa, Italy