Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Systems Research and Behavioral Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Managing sustainability using system dynamics: Selected papers from the Tenth European System Dynamics Workshop, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany38
A scratch below a system's surface31
Corrigendum to Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation30
Editorial SRBS Special Issue 202424
Organisational ambidexterity and knowledge management: A systems perspective towards Smart Model‐based Governance22
Autonomous Change20
Punishment or reward? Environmental information disclosure in Chinese listed companies based on evolutionary game systems19
Mapping the Intellectual Structure and Evolution of Systems Thinking: A Bibliometric Analysis of Problem and Solution Domains19
Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery18
From Systems Metaphors to Project Manager Intelligence: Fostering Stakeholder Relationships17
A Method for Evaluating Human Resource Value at the Task Level: Integrating Hard and Soft Skills in Intelligent Decision Systems16
The Impact of Different Policies on Consumer Adoption of Higher‐Level Energy‐Saving Home Appliances in China Based on Social Network Modelling15
Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices15
Moral and managerial perspectives on cooperatives: Towards a Luhmannian reconciliation14
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Pathways to well‐being in Tarumajaya, West Java: Post‐COVID 19 supporting better access to the commons through engagement and a critical systemic reflection on stories13
Networked Lives: The Emergence of Art as a Social System13
A Systems Thinking Approach to Preventing Zoonotic Spillovers: A Case Study From Ghana13
Analysing the rationality of the Gaia hypothesis13
SROP matrix: A systematic analysis tool for complex decision‐making13
From Algorithms to Ecosystems: Conceptual Links Between Artificial Intelligence and Biological Control12
Multi‐stakeholder structured dialogues: Five generations of evolution of dialogic design12
Using an interactive simulation tool of national energy and climate policy planning to explore environmental policy options from the perspectives of different interest groups12
A Participatory Approach to Enhance Screening System for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder in Critical Care Settings12
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Simulating Policy Impacts on the Evolution of Intellectual Property Securitisation Markets: An Agent‐Based Approach10
Unilateral consensus: Legitimation as a societal phenomenon in Luhmannian systems theory10
Purposeful Evolution in Organisational Cybernetics: Symbiosis, Co‐Evolution, Transduction and Axiology in Viable Systems10
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Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services: An agenda for future studies for the efficient resource use10
Application of systems thinking and system dynamics in managing risks and stakeholders in construction projects: A systematic literature review10
What Are the Key Factors Affecting AI Algorithmic Price Discrimination in China? Evidence From Complex Adaptive Systems Modelling10
Towards low‐carbon transition: Coordinating development and decarbonisation in rural logistics10
Symbolic Overload and the Autopoietic Unconscious: A Systems‐Theoretical Reconstruction9
Using systems thinking to understand the experiences of overseas‐trained teachers in Australia9
The paradox of standards and innovation: Reconceptualising standards and standardisation with the help of Niklas Luhmann9
RETRACTION: Role of Innovative Behaviour as a Missing Linchpin in Artificial Intelligence Adoption to Enhancing Job Security and Job Performance9
Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape9
Exploring Systems Approaches to Innovation Management From Second‐Order Science in the West and China: System of Systems and TiXi9
Enriching systems practice with African perspectives8
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse8
The Societally Corrupting Potential of Moral Communication8
Mode 2 critical systems practice for complex safety decisions: Reflections from New Zealand's dairy industry8
Lifecycle‐Based Governance to Build Reliable Ethical AI Systems8
Creative‐Becoming Holism: Reflections on and Development of Creative Holism in the Case of Science Education8
The Great Question of the State: Why a Country Is Resilient Even With the Most Incompetent Governance7
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Investigating practical wisdom in complex system management: What is it and how do we get more?7
Using a Hybrid Collaborative Crisis Management Framework to Foster Long‐Term Growth in Post‐Disaster Reconstruction: Findings From the Chinese Paired Assistance Policy7
Rebound Effects of Digital Textile Microfactories in Fashion, a System Dynamics Study of CO 2 Emissions7
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Training Requirements for Collective Intelligence (CI) and Systems Thinking (ST) Facilitators7
Emergent Behavioural Patterns in Energy Systems: A Systems‐Analytics Framework for Renewable Investment Decisions for G20 Countries7
Mapping Systems Thinking Pedagogies in Social Science Education: A Scoping Review With an Emphasis on Sustainability7
How to make climate policy more effective? The search for high leverage points by the multidisciplinary Dutch expert team ‘Energy System 2050’7
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The principle of relativity from the organisational point of view17
Tracing General Systems Theory to Enlightenment Philosophy: Reflections on Lambert's, Kant's and Bertalanffy's Legacies7
Bridging Expert Insight and AI Reasoning: A Hybrid Systems Model of Iran's Fertility Dynamics7
Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach7
Conceptualising Systems Thinking: The Fundamentals, Methodologies and Tools7
Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach6
Decolonising Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND): A Systems Theoretical Framework for Global Inclusivity6
Algorithmic responsibility without accountability: Understanding data‐intensive algorithms and decisions in organisations6
Is Reading an Upstream Predictor of Science and Mathematics Achievements in PISA? A Bayesian Network Analysis for Policy Educational Interventions on Socio‐Economic Dispersion and Gender Gaps6
Blockchain‐driven IoT solutions in agriculture6
Ritual and university education: Systemic coexistence after COVID‐196
Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension6
From Particle to Purpose: A Systems‐Theoretical Model of Unity and Coherent Adaptation6
Paradigm, specialty, pragmatism: Kuhn's legacy to methodological pluralism6
Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World6
Building project resilience: A critical systems practice approach6
The system‐process view of life from the perspective of systems science and its enlightenment to artificial life6
The Mediator's Mind: Navigating Party Psychology and Behavioural Dynamics in Dispute Resolution6
Hybrid Bio‐Algorithmic Intelligence: Co‐Designing AI and Nature‐Inspired Systems for Sustainable Transformation6
System thinking skills and their effect upon supply chain resilience: A practitioner perspective5
Enhancing the Intellectual Capital of Research and Development Centres using Business Intelligence: A System Dynamics Approach5
The Organizational Systems Thinking Scale (OSTS): Development and Validation of a Third‐Order Hierarchical Framework5
Toward a Humanistic–Institutional Synthesis: Reframing China's Science and Technology System Reform5
Integrating distributive justice in system dynamics models of sustainability transitions5
The Dynamics of Life model5
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The Viable System Model Through a Power‐Relations Lens: Towards a Power‐Aware Conceptual Framework5
A fuzzy cognitive map approach to understand agricultural system and food prices in Türkiye: Policy recommendations for national food security5
Intolerance of Ambiguity Mediates the Links Between Systems Thinking With Dichotomous Thinking and Attributional Complexity in a Canadian Sample5
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The impact of AI recommendation for homogeneous products on product demand5
Using simulation modelling and systems science to help contain COVID‐19: A systematic review5
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Review of Herzberg's Two‐Factor Theory: Limitations and Improvements5
Unlocking the Potential for Smart Technology Adoption: Leveraging Mental Health Apps for Improved Well‐Being5
When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Structural Coupling in Education5
From Particles to Firms: A Metaphorical Typology of Technological Relations, Evidence from the Nanotechnology Sector5
Systems East & West 2.05
Festschrift for Mike Jackson: Call for papers for a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science5
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Project management and system dynamics modelling: Time to connect with innovation and sustainability5
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism: Learning from human learning systems and the adaptive learning pathway5
Designing Cognitive Viability in Complex Service Systems: Attention as a Systemic Constraint5
Systems approach in dynamic capabilities5
Employee power needs, leadership, and employee organizational commitment: A case study of high‐tech enterprises5
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Incorporating various perspectives in using instant messages in teaching programming: A critical system thinking perspective5
Exploring Similarities Between Systems: Concepts, Properties and Implications5
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Governance Systems in Self‐Help Group–Based Microfinance: A Social Systems Perspective4
Innovation in the Spaces In‐Between: Creating the Nexus Between Human and Non‐Human Actors in Systemic Innovations4
Collusion or monitoring? Connected institutional investors and stock price crash risk in China4
The Review of Human–Machine Collaborative Intelligent Interaction With Driver Cognition in the Loop4
Development of a New Emotional Intelligence Tool for Facilitating Systemic, Second‐Order Change Among Individuals, Teams and Organizations4
How Do We Measure and Increase Systems Thinking? Comparing Self‐Reported and Performative Metrics in Response to Building Causal Loop Models4
A fix that may fail: A qualitative model to explore potential rebound effects of digital textile microfactories4
Theory of the Next Society: Media Catastrophes, Triple Interpenetration and the Post‐Anthropocentric Condition4
Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov's worldview4
Unveiling Regional Disparities: Exploring Cybersecurity Capabilities and Performance Through Systems Theory Approach4
Project schedule contingency planning: Building on von Bertalanffy's open systems theory and critical systems practice4
Research on the Influence of Network Social Capital on the Search of Digital Entrepreneurial Opportunities4
Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach4
AI‐enabled information sharing mechanism and enterprise performance4
Toward Emergent Holism: A Mutually Constitutive Account for Systems Science and Holistic Philosophy4
Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking4
The impact of narcissistic leadership on organizational support: A study based on a sample of strategic emerging industries4
Correction to ‘Pathways to Well‐Being in Tarumajaya, West Java: Post‐COVID‐19 Supporting Better Access to the Commons Through Engagement and a Critical Systemic Reflection on Stories’4
Living beings, coevolution and psychotherapy: The legacy of Humberto Maturana4
Association Between Confucian Culture and Corporate Environmental Governance4
Research on the Evolution of Digital Industry Innovation Ecosystem From the Perspective of Multiagent Symbiosis4
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Rural electrification in India: A wicked problem3
Behavioural and Systemic Extensions of the Even‐Swaps Method: Emergent Behaviour, Inventive Logic and Multiswap Chains3
Activity Systems Modelling as a Complex Systemic Approach to Develop Learning Partnerships Between Community Initiatives and Municipal Governments3
Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda3
Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching3
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The challenge of inclusivity, capability and change in complex, multi‐stakeholder problem situations—Practical insight from the application of participative systems methods, models and facilitation wi3
Teaching Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Liberal Arts College3
Reconsidering Infrastructure as Parallel‐Structure in Functionally Differentiated Society3
Transformative Services and Systemic Well‐Being—Towards a Better Understanding of Distinction in Service Design3
Why Organisations Outweigh Individuals in Curbing Miner Unsafe Behaviours: Evidence From Hybrid Structural Equation–System Dynamics Modelling3
Employing a Mental Model Framework to Explore Systems Thinking3
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Case study: Observing the World Music School Helsinki as a social ecological system to enhance community connectivity and resilience3
Modeling UX Frictions and Churn Intent in Digital Food‐Delivery Ecosystems3
Online Versus Face‐to‐Face Multiparty Interactions: Effects on Emergent System Dynamics and Integrative Outcomes3
Towards a sustainable integrated management approach to uncertainty surrounding COVID‐193
Foundational perspectives on systems practice for professions3
An Ecological Perspective on Systemic Challenges in Public Service: A Grey Causal Modeling Approach3
Ideological Repurposing of Institutions of Higher Management Education: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Imperatives3
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Identification of Influencing Factors on Proenvironmental Behaviour and Construction of a Causal Loop Diagram3
A study of key factors that influence and enable patient empowerment: A systems approach3
The Utility of Critical Systems Practice: A Supply Chain Practitioner Perspective3
Reframing resilience as a systemic issue: Meta‐competencies that transform individuals and learning ecologies3
Exploring the relationships between Industry 4.0 implementation factors through systems thinking and network analysis3
Theory and Methodology in Sociology–Guiding Distinction3
Evolutionary and Revolutionary Adaptation Processes Are Driven by Identity in Cooperative Systems: Theory Testing and Extension Through a Multicase Study Approach3
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Observing the Environment of Technology3
Exploring the Acceptability of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: Insights From Swiss Organizations3
Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations3
Making Sense of Complexity: Reframing Healthcare Improvement Through Critical Systems Thinking and Practice3
Understanding perceived influencers on project outcomes and quantifying disciplinary similarities in academic literature3
Mind the (identification) gap: Foci in multiteam systems and their impact on innovative work behaviours2
Enhancing collaborative advantage through critical systems thinking: An augmented viable system model intervention in a cross‐sector partnership social policy context2
Research and Application of the Safety Management Model “Network‐Wall‐Field” Based on the Concept of System Safety2
The intellectual endeavours of OR and systems scholars: The dynamic evolution of intellectual interactions2
Professionalism in artificial intelligence: The link between technology and ethics2
A Systems Thinking Framework for the Integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Decolonising Higher Education2
Optimizing Semiconductor Supply Chain Security Through Evolutionary Game Theory: Collaborative Governance and Policy Simulation2
Research on the Development of a Socioecological Model for Underground Miners' Unsafe Behaviour in Coal Mine2
Sociological Perspectives on AI, Intelligence and Communication2
Rainmaking: Observed with social systems theory2
Rebooting the systems approach by applying the thinking of Bogdanov and the pragmatists2
Purpose and Organisation Studies: On the Limits to Organisational Repurposing2
In search of a golden mean for systemic evaluation: A response to Michael Quinn Patton2
(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation2
A Multi‐Criteria and Empirical Study for Determining the Influencing Factors of Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Companies2
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From media evolution to the Anthropocene: Unpacking sociotechnical autopoiesis2
Committee‐Based Knowledge System in Organizations: A Systemic View of Strategic Committee Activities2
Systemic Management Education as an Adaptive Venture: 60‐Year Evolution of the St. Gallen Management Model2
Strategic, tactical, complex and simple changes to farm systems2
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Willing unwillingness. A Luhmannian perspective on followership and leadership in organizations2
Reflections on energy, information and fields from psychoanalytic and systems theoretical perspectives2
Industrial Services Value Cocreation: The Role of Competence2
Illuhmannating Technological Innovation Systems: Towards a Systems Perspective2
Critical systems practice 4: Check—Evaluating and reflecting on a multimethodological intervention2
Collaborative Governance Strategies for Trusted Data Spaces in Marine Ranching: A Stochastic Evolutionary Game Analysis From the Perspective of Chain‐Leading Enterprises2
A systems perspective on the approach to industrial chain and supply chain ecology2
A Systems Thinking Approach to Understand the Impacts of Pesticides on the Great Barrier Reef Ecosystems2
The Multidimensional Aspect of Technology Orders2
Expanding model transparency and learning potential through structural and behavioural debriefings2
System Dynamic Modelling for the Development of Smallholder Dairy Farming in Java Island, Indonesia2
Unravelling Wendt's Ontological Confusions and Justifying the Alternative of Autopoietic Theory2
Pragmatic ontology—Enhancing the philosophical foundation of critical systems thinking/practice2
Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems‐theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood2
Systemic evaluation of human resources risks in the public sector2
Strategizing‐as‐(Flexible) System: An Examination of Systemic Flexibility in Strategizing2
An adaptive use of Soft Systems Methodology with Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing, Critical Systems Heuristics and Interactive Planning in a women's prison2
Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in higher education: A sociotechnical perspective2
A work system theory perspective on talent management and systems2
Valuing who we are in relation to others: The ‘praxis of co’ in an Anthropocene‐world. The 2025 agenda for the cybersystems community2
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The world according to the project2
Combining the Capability Approach and System Dynamics for Well‐Being Oriented Policy‐Making2
The Matrix Reloaded: A Revised Framework for the Inference of the Four Basic Forms of Social Differentiation2
Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective2
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The viability and sustainability approach to support organisational resilience: Learning in a recent case study in the health sector2
A biomimetic systems method to organizational sustainable development and harmony: The Zen Business Model2
System lacks systems thinking: Top‐down organization and actor agency in China's agricultural extension system2
Modelling Human–AI Trust in Sociotechnical Systems: A Systems Perspective on Organizational Change2
Exploring the landscape of system dynamics archetypes: A systematic review2
Why Structures Close: A Formal Framework for Cyclic Consolidation Across Scales2
Complex Adaptive Systems Through the Lens of Whitehead's Philosophy: A Research Note2
Assessing the Impact of Digital and Fintech Lending on Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia: A Soft Systems Approach2
Using WindTunneling to document emergent knowledge to explore common perceptions of well‐being1
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Gaia needs a mind and humanity needs a purpose1
Pragmatism as practice theory: The experience of systems and OR scholars1
Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models1
The effects of artificial intelligence on organizational culture in the perspective of the hermeneutic cycle: The intersection of mental processes1
Managerialization, professionalization and firm performance in family business: A Systems Thinking perspective1
An application of systems thinking to group‐based organisations1
Assessing the viability of virtual structured democratic dialogue1
A network agent‐based model for Moroccan international tourism: Individual tourist behaviour and decision‐making processes1
‘The end user takes the final decision’1
Stakeholder theory: Exploring systems‐theoretic and process‐philosophic connections1
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Notes from the field: Practical considerations for agent‐based and continuous representations of system dynamics1
Fostering the transition to viable supply chains under risk/disaster events: A hierarchical analysis framework1
Field Testing of a Nested SSM‐UML Methodology: Socio‐Technical System Design in a Personalised Healthcare Ecosystem1
Moving Beyond Individuals: A Systemist Approach to Rational Choice Research on Voting1
Realising metamorphic transformation in the mirror of Tamkeen: Growing a shared understanding from co‐reflected lived experiences1
Systematic Governance for the Maintenance of Agriproduct Regional Public Brands: Insights From an Agent‐Based Simulation1
The Role of Māori Values in Corporate Culture and CSR: A Comparative Study in Aotearoa‐New Zealand's Fishing Industry1
The question of category: A reconceptualization through Luhmann's systems theory1
Adaptation in viable systems is an evolutionary process driven by the system's political identity1
What Drives Low‐Carbon Consumption? A Behavioural Diffusion Model Integrating Regret Theory and Evolutionary Game Theory1
A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E ( s ) ∞ mc 1
The Future of Systems Thinking1
A critical systems approach to conference organisation: Hosting an international conference in South Africa1
The resonance of Mike Jackson's work with the use of systems ideas in community operational research1
Unveiling the dynamic evolution of innovation networks in emerging economies: A complex network approach1
Festschrift for Mike Jackson1
Designing Participatory Systems Interventions for Behavioural Change: Integrating Soft Systems Methodology, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and Experiential Learning1
Information Dynamics and Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward a Transdisciplinary Framework1
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