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Enhancing group recommender systems: A fusion of social tagging and collaborative filtering for cohesive recommendations Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jian Wang, Asif Kamran, Fakhar Shahzad, Nadeem Ahmad Syed
This study examines the challenges and opportunities of using group recommendation systems in an information overload scenario. Social network recommendation systems are increasingly important because they deliver users customized choices. Most existing solutions are geared for single users, making it difficult to propose for a group with different interests. This paper analyses group recommendation
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Archetypal representations of dilemmas concerning invasive alien species management—A case of invasive Lantana camara in the protected areas of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Thangatur Sukumar Hariharan, Lakshmanasamudram Sriramamurthi Ganesh, Venkatraman Vijayalakshmi, Piyush Sharma, Vidyasagar Potdar
This multi-site case study on the invasive alien plant Lantana camara in protected areas of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India, addresses the reasons for inadequate institutional responses from stakeholders in managing the species despite the seriousness. The study uses thematic analysis and qualitative systems approach. The themes are converted into a qualitative-system-dynamics model and are then abstracted
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Understanding vehicle demand dynamics in Indian road transport: A qualitative framework Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ram Santran, Rhythm Singh
The demand for vehicles in India is on a continuous rise, primarily attributed to increasing income levels. The Indian government has initiated steps to decarbonize the transport sector, offering incentives for alternate vehicles' adoption. This study introduces a qualitative framework, employing a causal structure to comprehend the dynamics of vehicle demand. The framework takes into account critical
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Professionalism in artificial intelligence: The link between technology and ethics Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Anton Klarin, Hossein Ali Abadi, Rifat Sharmelly
Ethical conduct of artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly becoming an ever more pressing issue considering the inevitable integration of these technologies into our lives. The literature so far discussed the responsibility domains of AI; this study asks the question of how to instil ethicality into AI technologies. Through a three-step review of the AI ethics literature, we find that (i) the literature
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An application of systems thinking to group-based organisations Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Debadutta Kumar Panda
This study conceptualised self-help groups (SHGs) from the behavioural systems perspective. It adopted the grounded theory approach for data collection and analysis; and the development of structural frameworks through causal inferences. The behavioural system of the SHGs had psychological and behavioural input (interest, motivation, intention, value, belief and need), psychological and behavioural
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What is the noosphere? Planetary superorganism, major evolutionary transition and emergence Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Clément Vidal
The noosphere remains an underappreciated and understudied idea despite that it provides unique hope towards a positive and meaningful global integration. A core reason for this lack of attention is that its very definition is often unclear both in the West with Teilhard de Chardin and in the East with Vernadsky. I show how Living Systems Theory can clarify two fundamental meanings: the noosphere as
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2024-01-09
No abstract is available for this article.
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A study of key factors that influence and enable patient empowerment: A systems approach Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Saad Bani Hani, Brian Sauser, Suman Niranjan, Tony Willoughby
Global crises have forced the healthcare sector to advance the way they practise. Patient empowerment has emerged as one of the solutions to face these challenges. Nevertheless, patient empowerment is still lacking for accepted conditions, making it difficult to effectively promote within the healthcare system. This study aims to systemically map the concept of patient empowerment using principles
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System modelling: Exploring engineering students perceptions and learning outcomes Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ademola Amida, Woei Hung, Sameera Algarni
This study explored the students' perceptions and key learning outcomes with the use of system modelling (SM) instructional strategy. Specifically, the study sought to understand students' perceptions and experiences with the use of SM in enhancing their conceptual and application knowledge, as well as problem-solving and system thinking skills. The study employed a qualitative inquiry approach to
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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 stories Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Rudolf Wirawan, Jane Judy McIntyre-Mills, R. Riswanda, Ida Widianingsih, Indra Gunawan
This paper explores the concept of community engagement, aligned with President Jokowi's mission to promote social enterprises, as a means to support the development of a re-generative circular green economy in Tarumajaya, West Java. The primary focus is on enhancing farming, fishing, and forestry activities with villagers. The Covid-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for the villagers, particularly
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Adaptation in viable systems is an evolutionary process driven by the system's political identity Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Camilo Osejo-Bucheli
This note aims to establish the influence of a system's political identity on its viability. Using an argumentative analysis of evolutionary theory, organisational cybernetics and other systems traditions, this paper demonstrates the importance of identity to the adaptability of viable systems. It demonstrates how the environment shapes viable systems and how natural selection makes certain political
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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Navigating the polycrisis—governing for transformation: The 2024 agenda for the systems community Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Louis Klein, Pamela Buckle, Nam Nguyen, Rika Preiser, Ray Ison
The challenges of the Anthropocene were pre-empted by systems scholars in the exposition of the ‘global problematique’ and are now made manifest in what systems scholars called the polycrisis. These framings alert us to our human circumstances but to date, have done little to transform our manners of being and doing, as the polycrisis is an outcome of a profound governance crisis. Ongoing reflections
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Corrigendum Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-13
In the article (Zhang & Fan, 2022), the article title was incorrect. The correct title is indicated below. The system-process view of life from the perspective of systems science and its enlightenment to artificial life We apologize for this error.
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Corrigendum to Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-13
Lindhult, E, Sankaran, S, Midgley, G. Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation. Syst Res Behav Sci. 39(3), 679–681. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2879 The authors' affiliations contained errors. The correct affiliations are listed below. Erik Lindhult 1, Shankar Sankaran 2, Gerald Midgley 1,3,4,5,6,7 1School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University
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Cybernetics of large social systems: The example of economics Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Tatiana A. Medvedeva, Stuart A. Umpleby
When attempting to manage a large social system, it is necessary to have an overview of how the society functions and how economic theories describe this functioning. Recent discussions of higher orders of cybernetics are helping to define a multi-disciplinary, multi-level point of view. Knowledge from several disciplines is needed—systems science, management, engineering, cognitive studies and the
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Ritual and university education: Systemic coexistence after COVID-19 Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón
This paper explores the realm of university education after COVID-19, in which there is a perceived need to manage the ‘old’ and the ‘new’. The paper brings two different systems approaches to that end: the systems theory of autopoiesis and the systems identity technology of profilicity. In their own way, both explain the phenomena of ‘blindness’ to social situations, potentially enabling meaningful
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-11-22
No abstract is available for this article.
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Fuzzy-logical self-organisation system modelling—Illustrating case of self-organisation Czech restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Eva Šerá, Karel Doubravský, David Schüller
The aim of this paper is to show how Niklas Luhmann's concept of self-organization can be formalized using fuzzy logic. This approach is based on the shared assumptions of systems theory and fuzzy logic and focuses on natural language expression and the complexity of social processes. It involves modelling the operations of the system in relation to the fuzziness of the environment, that is, the transformation
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A fuzzy cognitive map approach to understand agricultural system and food prices in Türkiye: Policy recommendations for national food security Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ahmet Ekici, Şule Önsel Ekici, Işık Özge Yumurtacı Hüseyinoğlu, Forrest Watson
Once one of the few self-sufficient food countries in the world, Turkey has become dependent on imports to feed its population. Food prices have climbed to among the highest in the world, severely threatening the food security of the country. Most researchers generally attributed the high prices to the increased input costs of agriculture. Although the role of input prices cannot be denied, this paper
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An international empirical study on the relationship between decision-making information complexity and resource-based view in small and medium-sized enterprises Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Norbert Sipos, Edit Bányai, Tímea Venczel-Szakó
This study contributes to the topic of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) decision-making peculiarities from a resource-based view (RBV). It provides empirical evidence on the relationship between the decision of SMEs and a variety of information sources. We analysed a comprehensive dataset drawn from the Global Competitiveness Project on SMEs' competitiveness, including cross-sectional data of
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Organisational ambidexterity and knowledge management: A systems perspective towards Smart Model-based Governance Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Stefano Armenia, Sergio Barile, Francesca Iandolo, Alessandro Pompei, Luigi Maria Sicca
The purpose of this paper is to propose a new framework for the governance of ‘modern’ smart organisations that integrates IT-based orientation to decision-making, systems thinking through system dynamics modelling and cybernetics. The design of the proposed framework is based on the key role played by knowledge in the governance of organisations. The literature on ambidexterity, organisational learning
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Reflections on energy, information and fields from psychoanalytic and systems theoretical perspectives Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Pamela M. Buckle
The story of energy as a focus of psychoanalysis began with Freud and was conceptualized further by C. G. Jung. For him, energy enlivens the human psyche, drawing people towards ideas and activities, forming and re-forming us through the ways it moves and the content it carries. This article examines how psychological energy forms the experience of individuals, informing us about conscious and subconscious
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Emergent growth of system self-organization and self-control: Contextual system design, steering, and transformation Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Jessie Lydia Henshaw
In physics, subjects not explained by formulas were often avoided, like how uncontrolled systems change form. Weather, businesses, societies, environments, communities, cultures, groups, relationships, lives, and livelihoods all change form by variations of “S” curve progressions. It is a slow-fast-slow process of self-animated contextual energy-system emergence of working designs. They also appear
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Towards eco-systemic living: learning with Indigenous leaders in Africa and Indonesia through a community of practice: implications for climate change and pandemics Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, Patricia Lethole, Mphathe Makaulule, Rudolf Wirawan, Ida Widianingsih, Norma Romm
The paper reflects on the lessons from two case studies in order to discuss (1) how they address Ostrom's eight principles and (2) implications for social, economic and environmental challenges. The two case studies are of forest communities in Venda in South Africa and Ciptagelar, West Java, discussed in terms of their social, environmental and economic approaches. In both cases, the communities see
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Mind the (identification) gap: Foci in multiteam systems and their impact on innovative work behaviours Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Erik Eduard Cremers, Petru Lucian Curșeu
The paper presents a longitudinal exploration of identification with teams and multiteam systems (MTSs) in an organizational context that started using MTSs. Data were collected in five waves during the first 2 years in which the organization started the implementation of MTSs in order to aggregate teams in value streams as organizational units. The results show that there is a clear and distinct gap
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The question of category: A reconceptualization through Luhmann's systems theory Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Konstantin Skoblik
Although the problem of category has traditionally been addressed by various scholars since Aristotle, Luhmann's epistemology has kept this matter in a suspended state, occasionally prioritizing some concepts (presumably categories) over others. However, for the sake of a consistent analysis of the semantics and societal self-descriptions, it is better to have categorical constructs as focal points
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Theory of the third: A cybernetic approach to escalative conflict dynamics in business families Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Lina Nagel, Steffen Roth, Heiko Kleve
This conceptual paper explores the surprising impact exerted by third elements on the escalation and de-escalation of conflicts in business families. To this end, we draw on core concepts of Batesonian cybernetic theory to perform a reconceptualisation of pertinent literature on changing conflict dynamics gathered in family business research and consultancy. Based on this reconceptualisation, we identify
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Analysing the rationality of the Gaia hypothesis Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Jianhua Xie
The Gaia hypothesis is often used as the basis for demonstrating environmental integrity in current arguments within the field of ecological philosophy. However, when citing the Gaia hypothesis, people are often vague when defining its connotations and extensions. By analysing the controversies surrounding the Gaia hypothesis, we can achieve an appropriate conception of its ontology, including the
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Appreciating systems changes via multiparadigm inquiry: Architectural design, ecological anthropology, Classical Chinese Medicine and systems rhythms Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 David Ing
In which ways is the subject of systems change(s), as a first-class concept, distinct from a reduction into (i) systems and (ii) changes? For practice, theory and methods to be authentically rigourous, the philosophy underlying an approach to systems changes can be explicated. Through an appreciative systems framework, presumptions are surfaced as to (i) what are and are not systems changes; (ii) when
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Multi-stakeholder structured dialogues: Five generations of evolution of dialogic design Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Yiannis Laouris, Kevin Dye
The paper reviews the evolution of Interactive Management, later referred to as Structured Democratic Dialogue, starting from the early 1970s up to this date. The authors propose a generational classification scheme consisting of five periods based primarily on whether some or all stages of the process were implemented synchronously or asynchronously and whether the participants' presence was physical
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Complexity Patterning: A patterns-based design and strategy for transformational education Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Shae L. Brown
This work describes a novel and transformational educational curriculum and strategy, designed to calibrate human consciousness and cognition to the generativity of living complex phenomena. It is an approach that seeks to displace the outdated mechanistic paradigm within education in favour of the deep complexity paradigm. Towards this aim, a patterns-based curriculum and educational strategy called
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Design's secret partner in research: Cybernetic practices for design research pedagogy Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Ben Sweeting, Sally Sutherland
How to understand the relation between design and research is a longstanding question in design theory and practice. It is also a question in design pedagogy, especially in taught postgraduate programmes where students are expected to engage with and conduct research in formal ways, often for the first time. In this article, we discuss a curriculum that we have developed for introducing research literacy
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When huskies bite back: A complex systems metaphor perspective on information technology project management Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Stephen Jackson
Researchers have acknowledged the usefulness of metaphors to understand organizational phenomena. More than fancy linguistic ornaments, metaphors can provide a rich understanding of the situation under investigation; demonstrate how individuals think, feel and behave; and be used as a diagnostic tool to help analyse organizational problems. Notwithstanding the importance of metaphor analysis, how system
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LOGOSOFIA: A platform for deliberative co-construction of intersubjective consensual realities Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jeff Diedrich, Alexander Christakis, Maria Kakoulaki
In this paper, we revisit lessons learned regarding the process of Structured Dialogic Design in the arena during the past 50 years. Thirteen Lessons are presented with the intent of helping stakeholders design a strategy for escaping the labyrinth (vicious cycle) produced by the strong interactions among three issues: (1) the critical role of inclusive deliberative dialogue; (2) the dependency of
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Investigating practical wisdom in complex system management: What is it and how do we get more? Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Leonie Hallo, Tiep Nguyen, Nicholas Chileshe
Systems are now extremely complex with the continuous involvement of multiple stakeholders and rapidly advancing technology, and a new way of viewing high-performance system management and decision-making is needed. This paper considers the use of practical wisdom as a promising way of revitalising system management to improve the success rate in making critical decisions. Practical wisdom has been
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Stakeholder theory: Exploring systems-theoretic and process-philosophic connections Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Vladislav Valentinov, Steffen Roth
Modern stakeholder theory is premised on the ‘integration thesis’, according to which business and ethics constitute an inseparable unity. For many management scholars, this thesis raised the difficult question of how far business can pursue ethical goals without losing its functional autonomy. We address this question by interpreting the integration thesis as the Luhmannian ‘unity of difference’ of
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Post-project sustainability evaluation by using a complex systems approach: A framework and an application to a revolving loan fund (microfinance) project in Indonesia Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Nur Chasanah, Indra Gunawan, Bassam Baroudi
Limited evidence and less comprehensive approach to post-project sustainability evaluation has raised the need for incorporating complexity concepts in project sustainability evaluation. This study aims to develop a project sustainability evaluation framework by using a complex systems approach and to apply the framework to a microfinance project in Indonesia. This qualitative research is based on
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-07-24
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Dynamics of Life model Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Victor MacGill
This paper attempts to formulate a generic model of living and social system at all levels with three parts. The first is the Dynamics of Life diagram, which follows flows of energy, matter and information through the system. A rule set controls how the parts co-operate to maintain internal and external processes. As a system acts, it creates the space for a shadow system that opposes it. Unmanaged
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Project schedule contingency planning: Building on von Bertalanffy's open systems theory and critical systems practice Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
The research on project schedule contingency suffers from three major shortcomings: (1) it only partly reflects the complexity arising from the high interdependencies among project activities; (2) it is predicated on the idea of closed systems and thus does not address the interaction between a project and its environment; and (3) it does not sufficiently inform industry practices. This paper addresses
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What is variety engineering and why do we need it? Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Markus Schwaninger, Stefan Ott
Management in systemic terms means to cope with complexity. Ross Ashby's law of requisite variety shows the way—maintaining the varieties of interacting systems in balance. To denote that process, we use the cybernetic concept of ‘variety engineering’, which we also formalize. It refers to processes of mutual complexity amplification and attenuation by interacting agents. The purpose of this contribution
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Within a mesh of expectations: Dealing with dilemmas in business families using systemic tools from family coaching Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Theresa Arnold, Heiko Kleve, Steffen Roth
Business family members face challenges related to exposure to diverse role expectations and systems logics, the management of which often results in situations of high complexity, dilemmas, and paradoxes. To address these issues, in this paper we combine key insights from social systems theory with systemic family coaching tools such as “internal maps,” the “expectation carrousel,” and the “tetralemma
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Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Rajneesh Chowdhury, Amanda Gregory, Miguel Queah
Holistic Flexibility is a conceptual lens in systems thinking that enables intellectual, emotional and tactical elasticity in systems practice. This paper will demonstrate Holistic Flexibility in practice in an NGO setting to design and implement a programme to address the widening gap between government policy and its implementation. Critical Systems Heuristics was chosen as the preferred methodology
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-05-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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The viability and sustainability approach to support organisational resilience: Learning in a recent case study in the health sector Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Angela M. Espinosa, Jon Walker, Kartikae Grover, Maya V. Vachkova
In the context of ongoing global pandemics and political and economic instability, supporting public health organisations to improve their performance and develop their resilience is becoming a central issue in the organisational resilience research agenda. This paper offers a briefing on the viability and sustainability (v&s) approach and provides an example of application of the self-transformation
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‘And what did you do about my emotions during Covid-19?’ Making sense of negative emotions at work through institutional logics and Critical Systems Heuristics Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Elena Tavella
The literature on Covid-19 has demonstrated that frontline workers use different coping strategies and engage in sense-making to address negative emotions. However, we know little about the underlying process of sense-making. Thus, this paper uses institutional logics to investigate how sense-making of negative emotions is enabled and constrained. This analysis draws on a diary written by a nurse at
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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 within an organisational setting Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Ian Newsome, David Lloyd
Reflecting on learning from the practical experience in the employment of systems thinking and facilitation to tackle complex, multi-stakeholder problems in work settings, three interconnected challenges were commonly encountered: an inclusivity challenge, a capability challenge and a change challenge. A series of typical cases are outlined to help illustrate these challenges, where combinations of
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The systems approach of strategic roadmapping: Framing challenges and contributions whilst flexing to changing conditions and circumstances Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Clive Kerr
For supporting strategy development, corporate practitioners and consultants have long appropriated the roadmap metaphor for journey-making to establish the concept of strategic roadmapping. The practice involves charting future courses of action to help realize a vision. However, despite the significant uptake and use of the method, there still lacks a discourse on its inherent flexibility. Therefore
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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 use Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Andrei Bonamigo, Raíssa Ribeiro de Azeredo, José Eugênio Monteiro de Camargo Filho, Herlandí de Souza Andrade
Over the last few years, the Lean 4.0 concept has emerged and gained prominence on the world stage for waste and efficient natural resources management, once including the Lean thinking philosophy for management and technologies from Industry 4.0 for supporting and sharing data and information among the actors in the supply chain. This new management technic allows reorganizes the business process
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Issue Information Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Exploring the relationships between Industry 4.0 implementation factors through systems thinking and network analysis Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Christian Hoyer, Indra Gunawan, Carmen Haule Reaiche
Industry 4.0 provides companies with the technological and theoretical means to enhance data-driven decision-making procedures. To facilitate the transformation process, several studies have identified factors that need to be considered when implementing Industry 4.0 on a broader level. However, the dynamic relationship between these factors has yet to be understood to provide companies with the in-depth
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Objective understanding of the principle of relativity (Methodological theses) Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Alexander Bogdanov
Einstein's special and general theories of relativity are easily understandable and present no contradictions to a scientific worldview that from the very start understands objectivity to be the product of the cognition of collective humanity. The mysteries and paradoxes of Einsteinian relativity are a consequence of thinking in bi-subjective terms, of only two observers who move away from one another
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The principle of relativity from the organisational point of view1 Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Alexander Bogdanov
Einstein's special and general theories of relativity are explained and clarified when they are expressed in terms of the organisational principles of degression (the operation of stable ‘skeletal’ forms that humanity has worked out in its practice to organise less stable ‘plastic’ elements)—in this case, frameworks for spatial and temporal orientation—and degression (the operation of complexes that
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Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Anwar Hamdan, Sadeque Hamdan, Imad Alsyouf, Nada Murad, Marah Abdelrazeq, Sondos Al-Ali, Maamar Bettayeb
This paper aims to assess and improve the sustainability performance at a higher educational institute (HEI) in UAE using DMAIC methodology, considering five sustainability aspects (knowledge, behaviour, concern, awareness and attitude). One primary and six secondary research questions were defined in the define phase. In the measure phase, a questionnaire was designed to measure the current sustainability
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Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in higher education: A sociotechnical perspective Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Mohammed Ali, Trevor Wood-Harper, Bob Wood
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedentedly complex situation and wicked problem in the education domain. This has forced educators and learners to study from home using unfamiliar pedagogical typologies and technologies in order to adapt to the new work routine. This research contributes to theory and practice by adopting a sociotechnical approach (STS) to understand the technical
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Earthquakes as a natural occurrence and disaster: A qualitative research from the perspective of chaos theory Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Eyyüp Yildiz, Sedat Bostan
A concept that inspired social sciences as well as many other fields of science was developed from chaos theory. Disaster researchers are also trying to approach, understand, explain and manage disasters with this new concept. However, it has been observed that studies investigating disasters from this perspective do not focus on disaster sources. With this starting point, in this research, the chaotic
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A reading of Alexander Bogdanov in times of crisis Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Juan F. Rendon-Sanchez
Reading Bogdanov today can surprise us with the relevance of his work, the coincidence of some of his ideas with contemporary thought and the productivity of his approaches. Systems thinking, with its capacity to engage with diverse areas, including science and philosophy, is an appropriate avenue for approaching some of our present global problems. I attempt in this article to highlight key ideas
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Managerialization, professionalization and firm performance in family business: A Systems Thinking perspective Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Lucrezia Songini, Stefano Armenia, Chiara Morelli, Alessandro Pompei
This paper proposes a systemic model on the intertwined relations among managerialization, professionalization and firm economic performance, considering both business- and family-specific features and issues. It sheds light on the role that, in the family business, the firm economic performance may play in favouring a positive development of both the business and the family itself. It aims at understanding
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Towards a sustainable integrated management approach to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 Systems Research and Behavioral Science (IF 1.75) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Tiep Nguyen, Leonie Hallo, Nicholas Chileshe, Nghia Hoai Nguyen
Traditional approaches to system management are not suited to highly uncertain conditions. Hard system approaches with a top-down management approach are often used to manage well-defined systems that are not easily able to cope with uncertainty. Soft system approaches of the with bottom-up or participative style may cause a lack of conformance to industry standards. Few studies have investigated these