  One 'problem' with the 21st century world, particularly the economic and
business worlds, is the phenomenal and increasing number of interconnections
between economic agents (consumers, firms, banks, markets, national economies).
This implies that such agents are all interacting and consequently giving raise
to enormous degrees of non-linearity, a.k.a. complexity. Complexity often
brings with it unexpected phenomena, such as chaos and emerging behaviour, that
can become challenges for the survival of economic agents and systems.
Developing econophysics approaches are beginning to apply, to the 'economic
web', methods and models that have been used in physics and/or systems theory
to tackle non-linear domains. The paper gives an account of the research in
progress in this field and shows its implications for enteprise information
systems, anticipating the emergence of software that will allow to reflect the
complexity of the business world, as holistic risk management becomes a mandate
for financial institutions and business organizations.
