Applied systems thinking has evolved since the 1950s through three paradigm atic waves.
Authors in the first wave regarded systems as real-world entities, and systems models as …

The term 'systemic innovation'is increasing in use, but there is no consensus on its meaning:
five understandings of the term can be identified, each based on a different view of what the …

Abstract Community Operational Research (Community OR), and its disciplinary relation,
Community-Based Operations Research, has an increasingly high profile within multiple …

This paper addresses the under-researched issue of stakeholder identification and
engagement in problem structuring interventions. A concise framework is proposed to aid …

Wicked problems are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency,
stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. In response, there has been …

Abstract Community Operational Research (Community OR) has been an explicit sub-
domain of OR for more than 30 years. In this paper, we tackle the controversial issue of how …

The term 'systemic innovation'is increasing in use. However, there is no consensus on its
meaning: four different ways of using the term can be identified in the literature. Most people …

Critical information systems (IS) research, it is argued, does not have a distinct
methodological identity. While some research methods are closely related to the positivist …

More than 10 years ago, Orlikowski and Iacono (2001) examined the conceptualization of
Information Technology (IT) in Information Systems Research (ISR) articles published in the …

This article proposes the importance of admitting into the repertoire of Problem Structuring
Methods for (Community) Operational Research, the methodology called Structured …