Practical contributions of applied & organizational neuroscience to corporate governance

From the Industrial Revolution that took place between the XVIII and XIX centuries to the coin of the term the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (Schwab, 2016) almost 300 years have passed. During this period, the industry evolved from steam power and its influence on labour, production, and even society composition (Nuvolari et al., 2021) to a current context that is characterised by physical, digital, and biological megatrends and pioneering scientific and technological innovations (Philbeck & Davis, 2018). However, the human brain, the organ responsible for dealing with the uncertainty and challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has not evolved in similar terms neither at a similar speed than organizations (González-Forero & Gardner, 2018; Scarlett, 2019). For the human brain the main goal is still survival (Barker et al., 2018), and to ensure it, it performs according to biological, genetical, neuronal, and hormonal principles (Bear et al., 2015; Kandel et al., 2021), and also under the basis of patterns, behaviours, habits, and heuristics