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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Parents, Pupils, Pedagogues, and Policies: A Rectangle of School Education for Immigrant’s Children	21
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	17
A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Participatory Insider Action Research in an Executive Team	15
Correction: A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	11
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	11
Community of Learning as a World-Building Environment	11
Social Systems Theory and Family Business: A Perspective Article	10
Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions	9
Environmental Education Performance Evaluation in a Higher Education Institution	9
‘Virtual’ Action Research: Two examples	9
The Use of Critical Social Heurstics to Explore Enhancement of Benefits Realization of a Knowledge Management System	9
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	9
Towards a Checklist for Improving Action Research Quality in Healthcare Contexts	8
Correction: Codes of Conduct for Collaboration as Social Rule Systems for Transdisciplinary Processes	7
A Practical Action Research of Portfolio Assessment on Building the Learning Community for Graduate Students in Taiwan	7
Digital Transformations Through the Lens of the Collaborative, Co-Generative and Domesticative	7
Embracing Levin’s Legacy: Advancing Socio-Technical Learning and Development in Human-Robot Team Design Through STS Approaches	7
Correction: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Digitalization-driven Organizational Change? Actionable Knowledge from a Collaborative Project	6
Engaging the End User in Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management: An Action Research Study	6
The Interplay of Alcohol and Wellbeing in the Workplace: Combining Soft Systems Methodology and Foucauldian Approach	6
Organic Metalogue Across Spaces and Places to Rethink Species Relationships in a Community of Practice	5
The Role of Language in Policing: Sociological Perspectives on Law Enforcement	5
Exploring Action Research Sponsorship: Role and Enactment	5
Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions	5
Morten Levin Festschrift: Bridging Theory and Practice in Action Research	5

Institutional Reconstruction of Promoting and Maintaining the Level of Compliance with Health Protocols in Indonesia during the Pandemic	5
A Hybrid Use of Soft Systems Methodology for Developing a Framework of Evidence-Based Teaching for Hospitality and Tourism Instructors in Vietnam	5
Correction to: Participatory Action Research, Social Networks, and Gender Influence Soil Fertility Management in Tanzania	5
Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Housing: The Case of East Africa	4
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill	4
ORP Gym: Online Oral Repetition Practice Support System for Large-scale Japanese-Speaking Courses Abroad	4
A Comparative Study of Two Networked (neoendogenous) Development Approaches: The EU LEADER and China’s Resident Work Team in Poor Villages (RWTIPV)	4
A Systems Thinking Approach for Community Health and Wellbeing	4
Deploying Sustainability Through Employee Participation. An Action Research Proposal	4
Bridging the Gap Between Labour Unions and the Management Through Leadership Development Programs?	4
The Art of Teaching Professional Practice: An Action Research Methodology Inspired by Ulrich’s Systems Concepts	4
The Art of Soft Systems Inquiry: Retracing the Footsteps of Churchman and Checkland	3
Building Democracy at Work: The Contributions of Morten Levin to Action Research and Organizational Development	3
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	3
Problem Structuring Methods in Social-Ecological Systems	3
A Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in eHealth Action Research	3
Creating New Knowledge while Solving a Relevant Practical Problem: Success Factors for an Action Research-Based PhD Thesis in Business and Management	3
Space of Challenges (SOC) Framework: Problems, Issues and Dilemmas in Sustainable Housing	2
Action Research for the Simultaneous Transformation of Governments and their Territorial Governance	2
Design-Driven Conflicts: The Emergence of a Cooperative Culture During Times of Crisis — a Narrative Simulation Approach	2
Correction to: Intrinsic Conflict Among Nigerian Public Security Forces: A Systems Model for Compliant Security Service Delivery in Nigeria	2
A Strategy for Designing a Research Project Using Critical Systems Heuristics: A Research Design Addressing Data Analytics Students’ Employability	2
The Participatory Action Researcher: A Starling in the Murmuration	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
Reimagining Famagusta: The Dialogic Design Theory of Change in action	2
Shifting Towards Sustainable Mobility: Challenging the Predominance of the Private Car Regime	2
Action Research Environments: Challenges for their Initiation and Sustainability	2
Viable IT Risk Management System by Viable System Model (VSM): Action Research for Managing IT-related Risk in the Banking Service	2
Institutional Divergence of Digital Item Bank Management in Bureaucratic Hybridization: An Application of SSM Based Multi-Method	2
Strategic Objectives for Aligning Healthcare and IT Practices in Providing Integrated Care for Multimorbid Patients: A Soft Systems Methodology Perspective	2
Combining social innovation and systems thinking to improve charity's performance in downtown of Tehran	2
Entropy in Education System: Transformation of an Individual Through Meaningful Interactions in a Community of Inquiry	2
Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative	2
Video-Based Action Learning and Research: Increased Transformative Capacity among Team Leaders of a Youth Care Protection Agency	1
Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science	1
Investigating the Competing Values of Digitalizing Organizational Learning: An Action Research Ethnography	1
An Integrative Framework of Ethical Leadership	1
Abegar Indigenous Conflict Resolution System: a Community Based Reconciliation	1
Organising for Resilience to Climate Change in Critical Infrastructures: The Application of Viable System Model in an Oil Refinery	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
Correction: System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
When Rigor Meets Relevance: the Development of Hybrid Actionable Knowledge Production Systems	1
An Action Research on the Development of the Reflective Thinking Skills of Preservice Preschool Teachers*	1
Climate Constellations: A Systemic Tool for Exploring Sustainability Transitions	1
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	1
The Complexity of Co-Generative Learning Between University and Regional Actors	1
Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School	1
Strengthening Rural Governance for Rural Development Through Collaborative Strategy: the Application of Soft System Methodology and Textual Network Analysis	1

Beyond Project Cybersyn: Tracing the Influence of Stafford Beer Projects and Ideas in Latin America	1
Demonstrating the Elaborated Action Design Research (eADR) Model to Address Communication Challenges During Software Development	1
Exploring the Value of Arts-Based Interventions in Organizations from a Systems Perspective	1
Communicating Scientific Knowledge as News on Social Media: Analyses in Frames of Luhmann’s System Theory	1
Systemic Business Intervention to Treat Complex Problems in Companies	1
System Action Learning: Reorientating Practice for System Change in Preventive Health	1
True Learning Organization – Organization of People Dedicated to Spirituality	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
Retrospective analysis of a triple helix environmental technology partnership: transformational learning through action research	1
Merging Worklife Organizational Innovation and Educational Programs: Promoting Continuous Adaptations to the Global Economy	1
Book Review: How to do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis	1
Integrating System Thinking and Network Analysis To Transform Village Tourism: Evidence from Riau Province, Indonesia	1
Towards a Viable Knowledge Environment within an Academic Institution	1
The Role of Management Science in Forming Next Era Semantics	1
Action Research in Agricultural Development Projects: Case Study of a Dairy Project in Ethiopia	1