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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Parents, Pupils, Pedagogues, and Policies: A Rectangle of School Education for Immigrant’s Children	18
Beyond Just Talking Strategy: Using Gaming Simulations to Catalyze Airline Managers’ Buy-in to Novel Strategies that Can Shape or Adapt to Profit Cyclicality	15
A Comparative Study of Two Networked (neoendogenous) Development Approaches: The EU LEADER and China’s Resident Work Team in Poor Villages (RWTIPV)	14
A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems	11
Correction: Digitization and the Shaping of Society – A Soft Systems Study	10
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	9
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	9
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	8
Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	8
A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Participatory Insider Action Research in an Executive Team	8
Challenges of Implementing S&OP in a Mid-sized Automotive Components Company: An Action Research Approach	7
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	6
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	6
Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Housing: The Case of East Africa	6
True Learning Organization – Organization of People Dedicated to Spirituality	6
Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery	5
Prefiguring the Design of Freedom: An Informational Theory Approach to Socio-Political Cybernetics; Analysing the Messages in 2021 Colombian Uprisings	5
Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change ? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	5
Improving Teachers’ Engagement in Action Research: A Baseline Study in Primary Schools of Bahir Dar City	5
The Art of Soft Systems Inquiry: Retracing the Footsteps of Churchman and Checkland	4
Correction to: A Systemic Evaluation of the State of Affairs Following the Negative Outcome of the Referendum in Cyprus Using the Structured Dialogic Design Process	4
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	4
Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	4
Social Systems Theory and Family Business: A Perspective Article	4
Building Democracy at Work: The Contributions of Morten Levin to Action Research and Organizational Development	4

Book Review: How to do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis	4
Community of Learning as a World-Building Environment	4
Correction to: Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	4
Scientific Communication Observed with Social Systems Theory. An Introduction and Outlook to Pure Science for Society	4
When Co-Generative Learning Met Co-Production and Co-Creation - On How Three Different Concepts Shaped “Samskaping”	4
An Action Research on the Development of the Reflective Thinking Skills of Preservice Preschool Teachers*	3
Football Industry Accounting as a Social and Organizational Practice: from the Implementation of the CSR Process to Integrated Reporting	3
Empirical Action Research on Improving Student’s Classroom Participation: The Case of Dilla University Computer Engineering Students	3
Correction to: Insight into Practical Teaching in Rural Planning in Colleges Based on the “Rural Innovation Workshop”	3
The Use of Critical Social Heurstics to Explore Enhancement of Benefits Realization of a Knowledge Management System	3
Strengthening Rural Governance for Rural Development Through Collaborative Strategy: the Application of Soft System Methodology and Textual Network Analysis	3
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	3
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	3
An Indigenous Relational Approach to Systemic Thinking and Being: Focus on Participatory Onto-Epistemology	3
Managing Implementation Issues in Industry 4.0: A soft Systems Methodology-based Approach	3
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	3
A Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in eHealth Action Research	3
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	3
Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Collaborative Research—in Dialogues We Trust	2
Correction: Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	2
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	2
Embracing Levin’s Legacy: Advancing Socio-Technical Learning and Development in Human-Robot Team Design Through STS Approaches	2
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	2
Critical Systems Heuristics: a Systematic Review	2
Can a Systemic-Phenomenological Teacher Professional Development Program Enhance Awareness of Intuitions and Serve Pedagogical Tact?	2
Abegar Indigenous Conflict Resolution System: a Community Based Reconciliation	2
Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative	2
University Research Centres, Scientific Freedom, and the Jester’s Paradox	2
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	2
Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	2
An Integrative Framework of Ethical Leadership	2
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	2
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	1
Wave Pattern of Multi-Agent Social Actions	1
An Interpretation of the Technological Evolution of Human Society—A Self-organization System Perspective	1
The Interplay of Alcohol and Wellbeing in the Workplace: Combining Soft Systems Methodology and Foucauldian Approach	1
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	1
Delegated Autonomy in Multi-Agency Viable Systems: Social and Systemic Factors During Crisis	1
The Growth Dynamics of the Restaurant Industry from Single Store to Chain Store in Taiwan: A Systems Thinking Perspective	1
Entropy in Education System: Transformation of an Individual Through Meaningful Interactions in a Community of Inquiry	1
Digital Transformations Through the Lens of the Collaborative, Co-Generative and Domesticative	1
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	1
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	1
Iterative Refinement of Multi-Method OR Workshop Designs through Boundary Critique: An Analytical Framework and Case Studies in Technology Utilisation	1
Temporality in Co-generative Processes: Reframing Time in Territorial Complexity	1
When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	1
Promoting Coronary Care Unit (CCU) Head Nurses’ Supervision Performance: Participatory Action Research	1
Towards a Viable Knowledge Environment within an Academic Institution	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
A Practical Action Research of Portfolio Assessment on Building the Learning Community for Graduate Students in Taiwan	1

Correction: Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	1
Retrospective analysis of a triple helix environmental technology partnership: transformational learning through action research	1
A Systemic Perspective on Organizations: International Experience with the Systemic Constellation Method	1
Using a Theory of Change Approach for Inclusive and Resilient Urban Food Systems in Uganda	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
Review of Finding the Wind: A Novel for Young People of Any Age (2022)	1
The Reflective Practice Framework for Phenomenographic Data Analysis	1
Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business	1
Transdisciplinary Cyber-systemic Design of Instruments to Measure Academic Performance in Middle and Higher Education Systems	1
Micro-Skills for Learning Soft Systems Methodology? Challenges and Opportunities in an Undergraduate Dissertation Project	1
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability	1
Digitization and the Shaping of Society – A Soft Systems Study	1
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	1
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	1
An Action Research Investigation of the Impact of Using Online Feedback Videos to Promote Self-Reflection on the Microteaching of Preservice EFL Teachers	1
Merging Worklife Organizational Innovation and Educational Programs: Promoting Continuous Adaptations to the Global Economy	1