Introduction: The Relational View on Economics – Challenges to a New Paradigm

This chapter presents an introduction and an overview of the chapters in the book which were presented at the third conference on Relational Economics on “The Relational View on Economics—Challenges to a New Paradigm” in Roskilde, Denmark from September 28 to September 29, 2023. The conference was organized as a fruitful partnership between the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin at Zeppelin University, Germany, and the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. The chapter gives on this basis an outline of the topics of discussion on Relational Economics which were developed at the third conference on Relational Economics. The chapter presents the intentions of the third conference on Relational Economics with focus on the critical challenges to the new paradigm of economic theory to continue the discussions and reflections of the international research project on Relational Economics. The introduction gives an overview of the interdisciplinary, epistemological, and methodological aims of this conference on Relational Economics.