This paper highlights the contribute deriving from network theories, and specifically from Many-to-Many logic and from Viable System Approach to the emerging theories on service. Network Theories indeed are themselves interdisciplinary theories, and have been approached in many disciplines such...

The objective of this paper is to review recent developments in service theory and systems theory with a view to identifying common features between the two. In particular, the study explores the issue of whether so-called ‘smart service systems’ can be understood in terms of the ‘viable...