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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	24
Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	19
Community of Learning as a World-Building Environment	17
Social Systems Theory and Family Business: A Perspective Article	16
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	13
The Use of Critical Social Heurstics to Explore Enhancement of Benefits Realization of a Knowledge Management System	12
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	12
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	11
Embracing Levin’s Legacy: Advancing Socio-Technical Learning and Development in Human-Robot Team Design Through STS Approaches	11
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	10
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	10
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	9
Correction: Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	8
Reflective Applications of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) Across Contexts	8
Digital Transformations Through the Lens of the Collaborative, Co-Generative and Domesticative	8
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	8
The Role of Language in Policing: Sociological Perspectives on Law Enforcement	7
Soft Systems Practice and its Misconceptions	7
Correction: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	7
Insider-outsider Positionality in Participatory Action Research Exploring Informal Social Support of Pakistani Families with an Intellectually Disabled Child	7
The Interplay of Alcohol and Wellbeing in the Workplace: Combining Soft Systems Methodology and Foucauldian Approach	7
Organic Metalogue Across Spaces and Places to Rethink Species Relationships in a Community of Practice	6
Undertaking ‘soft’ and ‘whole’ Systems Approaches in Realistic Policy Contexts: a Comparative Case Study	6
Morten Levin Festschrift: Bridging Theory and Practice in Action Research	5
Navigating Heteronormative Health Systems: A Rich Picture Exploration of the Challenges of 2SLGBTQ + Older Adults and Implications for Community Engagement in Research	5

Exploring Action Research Sponsorship: Role and Enactment	5
Correction to: Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	5
Institutional Reconstruction of Promoting and Maintaining the Level of Compliance with Health Protocols in Indonesia during the Pandemic	5
Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions	5
ORP Gym: Online Oral Repetition Practice Support System for Large-scale Japanese-Speaking Courses Abroad	5
A Hybrid Use of Soft Systems Methodology for Developing a Framework of Evidence-Based Teaching for Hospitality and Tourism Instructors in Vietnam	5
The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	4
Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Housing: The Case of East Africa	4
A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	4
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	4
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	4
Bridging the Gap Between Labour Unions and the Management Through Leadership Development Programs?	4
Deploying Sustainability Through Employee Participation. An Action Research Proposal	4
A Comparative Study of Two Networked (neoendogenous) Development Approaches: The EU LEADER and China’s Resident Work Team in Poor Villages (RWTIPV)	3
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	3
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	3
Correction to: Intrinsic Conflict Among Nigerian Public Security Forces: A Systems Model for Compliant Security Service Delivery in Nigeria	3
The Art of Soft Systems Inquiry: Retracing the Footsteps of Churchman and Checkland	3
Design-Driven Conflicts: The Emergence of a Cooperative Culture During Times of Crisis — a Narrative Simulation Approach	3
Shifting Towards Sustainable Mobility: Challenging the Predominance of the Private Car Regime	3
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	3
Building Democracy at Work: The Contributions of Morten Levin to Action Research and Organizational Development	3
A Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in eHealth Action Research	3
Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative	3
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability	3
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	2
Moving from Systems Modelling to Soft Systems Methodology to Enable a Critical Systems Thinking Stance to Address Complex Social Concerns	2
Reimagining Famagusta: The Dialogic Design Theory of Change in action	2
Action Research for the Simultaneous Transformation of Governments and their Territorial Governance	2
Storying Systems Change: Learning and Living with Complexity	2
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	2
Creating Viable Pockets of Sustainable Change – Infusing Soft Systems Methodology with Cybernetic Principles	2
An Action Research on the Development of the Reflective Thinking Skills of Preservice Preschool Teachers*	2
Climate Constellations: A Systemic Tool for Exploring Sustainability Transitions	2
Constructing the collaborative Working Relationships in one of the Big Four Firms	2
Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: Socio-Economic Approach and Action Research in Management	2
The Participatory Action Researcher: A Starling in the Murmuration	2
Space of Challenges (SOC) Framework: Problems, Issues and Dilemmas in Sustainable Housing	2
True Learning Organization – Organization of People Dedicated to Spirituality	2
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	2
Exploring the Value of Arts-Based Interventions in Organizations from a Systems Perspective	2
Action Research Environments: Challenges for their Initiation and Sustainability	2
Combining social innovation and systems thinking to improve charity's performance in downtown of Tehran	2
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	2
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	2
Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	2
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	1
An Integrative Framework of Ethical Leadership	1
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	1
Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	1

When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	1
Wave Pattern of Multi-Agent Social Actions	1
Leveraging a Dual Organisation-Development (OD) Process: A Longitudinal Study of a Start-up’s Transformation in the Energy Sector	1
Merging Worklife Organizational Innovation and Educational Programs: Promoting Continuous Adaptations to the Global Economy	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
Combining the Viable System Model and Nature Futures Framework	1
Navigating the First Years: Newly Qualified Teachers’ Experiences with Professional Learning Communities	1
Going in or Going out– Practicing Embedded Research as a True Insider	1
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	1
Book Review: How to do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis	1
Towards a Viable Knowledge Environment within an Academic Institution	1
How to AIM for the Future of Soft Systems Thinking	1
Applying SSM to Reinvent Education for Sustainable Development for Future Managers: A Tale of Two Universities	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
Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery	1
Retrospective analysis of a triple helix environmental technology partnership: transformational learning through action research	1
Integrating System Thinking and Network Analysis To Transform Village Tourism: Evidence from Riau Province, Indonesia	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
Micro-Skills for Learning Soft Systems Methodology? Challenges and Opportunities in an Undergraduate Dissertation Project	1
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	1
Exploring Digital Multisided Platforms: A Systems Thinking Approach	1
Correction: System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
Review of Finding the Wind: A Novel for Young People of Any Age (2022)	1
The ‘Covid-Trigger’: New Light on Urban Agriculture and Systemic Approach to Urbanism to Co-Create a Sustainable Lisbon	1
Beyond Project Cybersyn: Tracing the Influence of Stafford Beer Projects and Ideas in Latin America	1
Ecocentric Living: A Way Forward Towards Zero Carbon: A Conversation about Indigenous Law and Leadership Based on Custodianship and Praxis	1
Strengthening Rural Governance for Rural Development Through Collaborative Strategy: the Application of Soft System Methodology and Textual Network Analysis	1
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	1
Demonstrating the Elaborated Action Design Research (eADR) Model to Address Communication Challenges During Software Development	1