His doctrine of the world-system, an influential theory in the field, went beyond tribes, nations and ethnic groups. By Neil Genzlinger Immanuel Wallerstein, a sociologist who shook up the field ...

Systems theory was not originally a business theory. Indeed, systems theory was proposed in the 1940s by biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, say Francis Heylighen and Cliff Joslyn in their article ...

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and ...