OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Systemic Practice and Action Research is 3. 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
Conducting Action Research to Improve Operational Efficiency in Manufacturing: The Case of a First-Tier Automotive Supplier	9
Advice as a Form of Structural Coupling: Intersystem Organizations and Scientific Communication in the Japanese Response to COVID-19	9
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
Teacher Candidates’ Experiences in Using Story-writing Technique to Learn Educational Philosophies: a Turkey Sample	8
Challenges of Implementing S&OP in a Mid-sized Automotive Components Company: An Action Research Approach	7
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
The Role of Hierarchy in Realizing Collective Leadership in a Self-Managing Organization	6
Improving Teachers’ Engagement in Action Research: A Baseline Study in Primary Schools of Bahir Dar City	5
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
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
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
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
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