Markus Schwaninger

Biography

Markus Schwaninger is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Management and Strategy, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Research focus: Organizational intelligence, corporate transformation and learning, systemic issues of sustainability. Methodological orientation: Systems approaches; emphasis: Organizational Cybernetics (Viable Systems, Variety Engineering), System Dynamics. Studies in Economics, Sociology and Management at Universities in Austria (Salzburg, Innsbruck), Switzerland (St. Gallen) and France (Aix-Marseille). Habilitation and venia legendi at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (UNISG). Memberships: WOSC-World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (advisory board), International Academy of Cybernetics and Systems, System Dynamics Society, ISSS-International Society for the Systems Sciences, GWS-Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik, BSSS-Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (Fellow). Markus has researched, lectured and consulted internationally. Research residencies abroad: MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.; Columbia University, U.S.A.; UBC-University of British Columbia, Canada; Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil; Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica, Brazil. Founder of the System Dynamics Group at the Institute of Management and Strategy, UNISG. Publishing: Long-standing Managing Editor of the System Dynamics Review. His publications amount to roughly 250, in six languages, including 15 books.