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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable Development and Participatory Action Research: A Systematic Review	32
Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade	11
The Critical Heuristics of Iranian Banking Credit System: Analysis of the Antithetical Opinions of the Beneficiaries	10
Abductive Reasoning as the Integrating Mechanism between First- Second- and Third-Person Practice in Action Research	9
A Systems Thinking Methodology for Studying Prevention Efforts in Communities	9
Assessing Community Contributions to Sustainable Food Systems: Dietitians Leverage Practice, Process and Paradigms	8
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	8
Introducing the VIPLAN Methodology (with VSM) for Handling Messy Situations – Nine Lessons	8
The Big Picture of Non-Profit Organisational Sustainability: a Qualitative System Dynamics Approach	8
Systemic Problem Structuring in a Complex Hospital Environment using Viable System Diagnosis – Keeping the Blood Flowing	7
A Methodology for IT Governance by Viable System Modeling (VSM): an Action Research in Designing a Data Center	7
Living Life as Inquiry – a Systemic Practice for Change Agents	7
Systemic approach for integration of sustainability in evaluation of public policies for adoption of electric vehicles	7
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	7
The ‘Covid-Trigger’: New Light on Urban Agriculture and Systemic Approach to Urbanism to Co-Create a Sustainable Lisbon	6
An Action Research Investigation of the Impact of Using Online Feedback Videos to Promote Self-Reflection on the Microteaching of Preservice EFL Teachers	6
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	6
Systemic Creativities in Sustainability and Social Innovation Education	6
Teacher-Researcher Training in Higher Education: a Systems Thinking Approach	5
Action Research to Enrich Learning from Conflict to Collaboration: Bridging the First-Year Students and the NGOs Agencies in Service Learning Program	5
Methodological Flexibility in Systems Thinking: Musings from the Standpoint of a Systems Consultant	5
Too Smart to Participate? Rational Reasons for Employees’ Non-participation in Action Research	5
Power in the ‘Organisation’: A Soft Systems Perspective	5
The Prevalence of Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management: a Systematic Literature Review	5
Developing a Technology Roadmap for Regenerative Medicine: A Participatory Action Research	5

Entropy in Education System: Transformation of an Individual Through Meaningful Interactions in a Community of Inquiry	4
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	4
How can Cross-sector Partnership Promote Social Innovation?	4
Implementing Action Research in EFL/ESL Classrooms: a Systematic Review of Literature 2010–2019	4
An Analysis of Newspaper Depictions of Schooling: a Participatory Study for the Development of a Teacher Education Curriculum	3
Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions	3
Systemic Research on Owner Participation in Old Residential Community Management from the Perspective of Identity——a Case Study of a Typical Old Residential Community in Xi’an, China	3
Football Industry Accounting as a Social and Organizational Practice: from the Implementation of the CSR Process to Integrated Reporting	3
The Other Side of Success Factors—A Systemic Methodology for Exploring Critical Success Factors	3
Institutional Divergence of Digital Item Bank Management in Bureaucratic Hybridization: An Application of SSM Based Multi-Method	3
The Impact of Project Teams on CMMI Implementations: a Case Study from an Organizational Culture Perspective	3
A Methodological Proposal for the Complementarity of the SSM and the VSM for the Analysis of Viability in Organizations	3
Action Research as an Inquiry-Based Teaching Practice Model for Teacher Education Programs	3
A Systems Perspective on School Improvement with a Focus on Teachers	3
Integration of Art into STEM Education at Primary Schools: an Action Research Study with Primary School Teachers	3
From Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, to Action Research in Improving the Programming Skills of Students	3
Cultural Challenges of ERP Implementation in Middle-Eastern Oil & Gas Sector: An Action Research Approach	2
Power and Politics in New Service Development: An Insider Action Research Study	2
Participatory Analysis of Small-Scale Artisanal Gold Mining in the Santa Rita District, Municipality of Andes, Antioquia, Based on the PAIIO Methodology	2
Combining Participative Action Research with an Adapted House of Quality Framework for the Stakeholder Development of Performance Indicators in Local Government	2
Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	2
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	2
Together We Can Grow: Resourcing the Commons Through Pathways to Wellbeing	2
Intrinsic Conflict Among Nigerian Public Security Forces: A Systems Model for Compliant Security Service Delivery in Nigeria	2
Employing Local Systemic Intervention for Evolving a Transformational Organization Strategy-Action Research in an Indian Business School	2
System or Process? A Meta-theoretical Reflection on the Nature of the Firm	2
Improving Nurses’ Job Satisfaction: an Action Research Study	2
A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Participatory Insider Action Research in an Executive Team	2
Constructing the collaborative Working Relationships in one of the Big Four Firms	2
A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	2
Insight into Practical Teaching in Rural Planning in Colleges Based on the “Rural Innovation Workshop”	2
Organizational Model Design for Small Coffee Farmers in the Municipality of Viotá - Colombia Case Study: Creo en el Agro	2
Making Sense of the Unknown: Using Change Attractors to Explain Innovation Ecosystem Emergence	2
Can a Systemic-Phenomenological Teacher Professional Development Program Enhance Awareness of Intuitions and Serve Pedagogical Tact?	2
A Systemic Inquiry into a Hospital’s Reformation Actions	2
Exploring Digital Multisided Platforms: A Systems Thinking Approach	1
Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business	1
Systemic Research Practices Towards the Development of an Eco-Community in Vietnam: some Joint Post-Facto Reflections	1
A Practical Action Research of Portfolio Assessment on Building the Learning Community for Graduate Students in Taiwan	1
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	1
Insights on Social Responsibility of NGOS	1
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	1
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	1
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Collaborative Research—in Dialogues We Trust	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
Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	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
When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	1
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	1

Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	1
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	1
The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	1
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	1
A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems	1
Henceforth, We Will Never Walk Alone: Empirical Study on the Benefits of Participatory Governance and Leadership	1
Iterative Refinement of Multi-Method OR Workshop Designs through Boundary Critique: An Analytical Framework and Case Studies in Technology Utilisation	1
Banking System Modeling by Viable System Modeling (VSM)	1
Social Innovation Action Research for Lifestyle Improvement of Child Labour in Tehran (Social Innovation’s Idea on Child Labour Lifestyle)	1
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
University Research Centres, Scientific Freedom, and the Jester’s Paradox	1
Exploring Perspectives on Agroecological Transition in Scotland with Critical Systems Heuristics	1
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	1
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	1
Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	1