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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade	18
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	14
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	12
The Prevalence of Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management: a Systematic Literature Review	9
An Action Research Investigation of the Impact of Using Online Feedback Videos to Promote Self-Reflection on the Microteaching of Preservice EFL Teachers	9
Methodological Flexibility in Systems Thinking: Musings from the Standpoint of a Systems Consultant	9
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	8
The ‘Covid-Trigger’: New Light on Urban Agriculture and Systemic Approach to Urbanism to Co-Create a Sustainable Lisbon	8
Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing	8
A Methodology for IT Governance by Viable System Modeling (VSM): an Action Research in Designing a Data Center	7
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	5
How can Cross-sector Partnership Promote Social Innovation?	5
The Other Side of Success Factors—A Systemic Methodology for Exploring Critical Success Factors	4
Making Sense of the Unknown: Using Change Attractors to Explain Innovation Ecosystem Emergence	4
Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	4
A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Participatory Insider Action Research in an Executive Team	4
Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions	4
System or Process? A Meta-theoretical Reflection on the Nature of the Firm	4
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	4
A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems	4
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	4
Integration of Art into STEM Education at Primary Schools: an Action Research Study with Primary School Teachers	4
Entropy in Education System: Transformation of an Individual Through Meaningful Interactions in a Community of Inquiry	4
Football Industry Accounting as a Social and Organizational Practice: from the Implementation of the CSR Process to Integrated Reporting	4
Cultural Challenges of ERP Implementation in Middle-Eastern Oil & Gas Sector: An Action Research Approach	3

A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	3
Institutional Divergence of Digital Item Bank Management in Bureaucratic Hybridization: An Application of SSM Based Multi-Method	3
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	3
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	3
Deploying Sustainability Through Employee Participation. An Action Research Proposal	3
Together We Can Grow: Resourcing the Commons Through Pathways to Wellbeing	3
Intrinsic Conflict Among Nigerian Public Security Forces: A Systems Model for Compliant Security Service Delivery in Nigeria	3
Iterative Refinement of Multi-Method OR Workshop Designs through Boundary Critique: An Analytical Framework and Case Studies in Technology Utilisation	3
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	3
Insight into Practical Teaching in Rural Planning in Colleges Based on the “Rural Innovation Workshop”	3
An Analysis of Newspaper Depictions of Schooling: a Participatory Study for the Development of a Teacher Education Curriculum	3
Constructing the collaborative Working Relationships in one of the Big Four Firms	3
Improving Nurses’ Job Satisfaction: an Action Research Study	3
Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change ? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	3
Organizational Model Design for Small Coffee Farmers in the Municipality of Viotá - Colombia Case Study: Creo en el Agro	2
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	2
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	2
A Practical Action Research of Portfolio Assessment on Building the Learning Community for Graduate Students in Taiwan	2
University Research Centres, Scientific Freedom, and the Jester’s Paradox	2
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	2
The Systemic Challenge and Practice of Leadership in a Post-centaurian Society	2
Power and Politics in New Service Development: An Insider Action Research Study	2
A Hybrid Use of Soft Systems Methodology for Developing a Framework of Evidence-Based Teaching for Hospitality and Tourism Instructors in Vietnam	2
Social Innovation Action Research for Lifestyle Improvement of Child Labour in Tehran (Social Innovation’s Idea on Child Labour Lifestyle)	2
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	2
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	2
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	2
“The Learning of Learned ‘Learning Organizations’?”: How Southern African Universities Use a Professional Competency Framework for Research Management and Administration: Selective Cases	2
Employing Local Systemic Intervention for Evolving a Transformational Organization Strategy-Action Research in an Indian Business School	2
Participatory Analysis of Small-Scale Artisanal Gold Mining in the Santa Rita District, Municipality of Andes, Antioquia, Based on the PAIIO Methodology	2
Morten Levin’s “Academic Integrity in Action Research” Revisited: Bildung as Interiority	2
When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	2
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	2
Can a Systemic-Phenomenological Teacher Professional Development Program Enhance Awareness of Intuitions and Serve Pedagogical Tact?	2
Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: Socio-Economic Approach and Action Research in Management	2
ORP Gym: Online Oral Repetition Practice Support System for Large-scale Japanese-Speaking Courses Abroad	1
The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	1
Exploring Digital Multisided Platforms: A Systems Thinking Approach	1
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	1
Crisis! What Crisis?	1
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	1
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	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
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	1
Correction to: The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	1
Henceforth, We Will Never Walk Alone: Empirical Study on the Benefits of Participatory Governance and Leadership	1
Combining social innovation and systems thinking to improve charity's performance in downtown of Tehran	1
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	1
Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business	1
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Collaborative Research—in Dialogues We Trust	1

Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	1
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
Exploring Perspectives on Agroecological Transition in Scotland with Critical Systems Heuristics	1
Social Network Analysis as a Cybernetic Modelling Facility for Participatory Design in Technology-Supported College Curricula	1
Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	1
Diagnosing a Halal Certification System for Cosmetics: The Viable System Model Approach	1
Temporality in Co-generative Processes: Reframing Time in Territorial Complexity	1
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	1
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	1
Scientific Communication Observed with Social Systems Theory. An Introduction and Outlook to Pure Science for Society	1
Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	1