OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Systemic Practice and Action Research 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.)

Article	Citations
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	30
Community of Learning as a World-Building Environment	24
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	22
Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	22
Social Systems Theory and Family Business: A Perspective Article	16
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	16
The Use of Critical Social Heurstics to Explore Enhancement of Benefits Realization of a Knowledge Management System	14
Embracing Levin’s Legacy: Advancing Socio-Technical Learning and Development in Human-Robot Team Design Through STS Approaches	14
Systemic Project Management and the Impact on Soft Factors in the Organisation	12
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	11
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	10
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	10
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	9
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	9
Digital Transformations Through the Lens of the Collaborative, Co-Generative and Domesticative	9
Correction: Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	9
Special Issue, Soft Systems; Theory and Practice	9
Reflective Applications of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) Across Contexts	8
Soft Systems Practice and its Misconceptions	8
Undertaking ‘soft’ and ‘whole’ Systems Approaches in Realistic Policy Contexts: a Comparative Case Study	7
Insider-outsider Positionality in Participatory Action Research Exploring Informal Social Support of Pakistani Families with an Intellectually Disabled Child	7
Navigating Heteronormative Health Systems: A Rich Picture Exploration of the Challenges of 2SLGBTQ + Older Adults and Implications for Community Engagement in Research	7
The Role of Language in Policing: Sociological Perspectives on Law Enforcement	7
A Complementary use of Soft Systems Methodology and Viable System Model for Digital Banking Transformation	7
Correction: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	7

Institutional Reconstruction of Promoting and Maintaining the Level of Compliance with Health Protocols in Indonesia during the Pandemic	6
A Hybrid Use of Soft Systems Methodology for Developing a Framework of Evidence-Based Teaching for Hospitality and Tourism Instructors in Vietnam	5
Deploying Sustainability Through Employee Participation. An Action Research Proposal	5
ORP Gym: Online Oral Repetition Practice Support System for Large-scale Japanese-Speaking Courses Abroad	5
A Study on the Dynamic Mechanism and Synergistic Effects of Enterprise Participation in University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) Under Digital Transformation: Based on Symbiosis Theory	5
Morten Levin Festschrift: Bridging Theory and Practice in Action Research	5
The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	5
Exploring Action Research Sponsorship: Role and Enactment	5
Organic Metalogue Across Spaces and Places to Rethink Species Relationships in a Community of Practice	5
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	5
Bridging the Gap Between Labour Unions and the Management Through Leadership Development Programs?	5
Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Housing: The Case of East Africa	4
Building Democracy at Work: The Contributions of Morten Levin to Action Research and Organizational Development	4
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	4
A Comparative Study of Two Networked (neoendogenous) Development Approaches: The EU LEADER and China’s Resident Work Team in Poor Villages (RWTIPV)	4
The Art of Soft Systems Inquiry: Retracing the Footsteps of Churchman and Checkland	4
A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	4
Declaring Worldviews in SSM for Sustainability & Community Learning	4
A Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in eHealth Action Research	4
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	3
Shifting Towards Sustainable Mobility: Challenging the Predominance of the Private Car Regime	3
Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: Socio-Economic Approach and Action Research in Management	3
Space of Challenges (SOC) Framework: Problems, Issues and Dilemmas in Sustainable Housing	3
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	3
From Fixing Women to Transforming Systems: A Power-Critical Application of Soft Systems Methodology in STEM	3
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability	3
Combining social innovation and systems thinking to improve charity's performance in downtown of Tehran	3
Storying Systems Change: Learning and Living with Complexity	3
Design-Driven Conflicts: The Emergence of a Cooperative Culture During Times of Crisis — a Narrative Simulation Approach	3
Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative	3
The Participatory Action Researcher: A Starling in the Murmuration	3
Action Research for the Simultaneous Transformation of Governments and their Territorial Governance	3
A Systems Approach to the Dynamic Capabilities View: Putting the Pieces Together	2
Moving from Systems Modelling to Soft Systems Methodology to Enable a Critical Systems Thinking Stance to Address Complex Social Concerns	2
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	2
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	2
The Future of SSM Given Generative AI: the Power of ‘purpose’ and its Context (or “A Grok 3 Enabled Story Regarding a Future for Systems Thinking and practice”)	2
Exploring the Value of Arts-Based Interventions in Organizations from a Systems Perspective	2
An Action Research on the Development of the Reflective Thinking Skills of Preservice Preschool Teachers*	2
Mutual Adoption of Soft Systems Methodology, Co-Creation, Enterprise Architecture, and Balanced Scorecard for Continuous Assessment and Improvement of Programmes on Integrated Care for Multimorbid Pat	2
Towards a Viable Knowledge Environment within an Academic Institution	2
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	2
Climate Constellations: A Systemic Tool for Exploring Sustainability Transitions	2
Action Research Environments: Challenges for their Initiation and Sustainability	2
Unveiling Power Asymmetries and Stakeholder Legitimacy in Indonesia’s Electric Vehicle Transition: A Critical Systems Heuristics Analysis	2
Correction: System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	2
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	2
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	2
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	2
Creating Viable Pockets of Sustainable Change – Infusing Soft Systems Methodology with Cybernetic Principles	2

True Learning Organization – Organization of People Dedicated to Spirituality	2
Reimagining Famagusta: The Dialogic Design Theory of Change in action	2
Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP): A Praxeology for Our Times	2
Applying SSM to Reinvent Education for Sustainable Development for Future Managers: A Tale of Two Universities	2
Merging Worklife Organizational Innovation and Educational Programs: Promoting Continuous Adaptations to the Global Economy	2
The Viable System Model to Support Sustainable Self-Governance in Communities: Learning from Case Studies	1
Bioindustrialization by Native People: A systemic Management Approach to Foster Coevolution	1
Exploring Digital Multisided Platforms: A Systems Thinking Approach	1
Where Does Theory of Change Break Down in Indonesia’s Creative Economy Governance? A Critical, Soft, and Drama Systems Lens	1
The Contribution of Soft Systems Methodologies to Managing Complexity	1
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	1
How May the ‘Anthropocene’ Enable and Constrain Cybersystemic Governance? The ‘Anthropocene Problematique’	1
Navigating the First Years: Newly Qualified Teachers’ Experiences with Professional Learning Communities	1
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	1
Using a Theory of Change Approach for Inclusive and Resilient Urban Food Systems in Uganda	1
Review of Finding the Wind: A Novel for Young People of Any Age (2022)	1
Beyond Just Talking Strategy: Using Gaming Simulations to Catalyze Airline Managers’ Buy-in to Novel Strategies that Can Shape or Adapt to Profit Cyclicality	1
Reflections on ‘Stepping Back from the Brink’ : Recognising we are Systemic Interbeings and the Implications for Ethics, Democracy and Governance	1
When Successful Action Research is not Legitimized as Scientific Contribution by the Central Sponsors: How can Morten Levin’s Three Pillars of Action Research Support the Arch of Research Collaboratio	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	1
An Integrative Framework of Ethical Leadership	1
Developing Transformation Agenda Towards Sustainable Mining Supply Chain Using Soft System Methodology in Emerging Country: Case Study in Bauxite Mining at Mempawah, West Kalimantan, Indonesia	1
Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery	1
Demonstrating the Elaborated Action Design Research (eADR) Model to Address Communication Challenges During Software Development	1
Combining the Viable System Model and Nature Futures Framework	1
Integrating System Thinking and Network Analysis To Transform Village Tourism: Evidence from Riau Province, Indonesia	1
Invisible Textile Waste, Circular Solutions: An Action Research Experience in the Energy Industry	1
Digitalization of the Logistics Process in Short Food Supply Chains. An online Viable System Model application during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Pluralistic Causal Mapping: A Postmodern Systems Thinking Approach Regarding Identification of a Causal Map of Social Complex Systems	1
Strengthening Rural Governance for Rural Development Through Collaborative Strategy: the Application of Soft System Methodology and Textual Network Analysis	1
Leveraging a Dual Organisation-Development (OD) Process: A Longitudinal Study of a Start-up’s Transformation in the Energy Sector	1
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	1
Diagnosing a Halal Certification System for Cosmetics: The Viable System Model Approach	1
Book Review: How to do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis	1
Beyond the Cycles: Rethinking Data Collection, Analysis and Interpretation in Action Research in Organisational Setting: Implications for QuARC	1
Beyond Project Cybersyn: Tracing the Influence of Stafford Beer Projects and Ideas in Latin America	1
Going in or Going out– Practicing Embedded Research as a True Insider	1
Rethinking Quality Assurance in Information and Computer Science Degree Programs at Utrecht University: A Critical Systems Heuristics Perspective	1
How to AIM for the Future of Soft Systems Thinking	1
Implementing Cross-sector Hospital-at-home Treatment: Challenges, Opportunities and Action Research Insights	1
Climate Change and Three Models of Governance to Deal with it: Polycentricity, Experimentalist, and the Viable System Model	1