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 …

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

Management scholarship is increasingly paying attention to “grand challenges” such as
climate and demographic changes, sociopolitical uncertainty, poverty alleviation, and global …

The language of co-creation has become popular with policy makers, researchers and
consultants wanting to support evidence-based change. However, there is little agreement …

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to
Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support …

This article presents a survey of the literature on the application of operational research (OR)
in healthcare, with a particular focus on behavioural considerations. In order to explore the …

Purpose This study aims to map and analyze health-care pricing information research. This
work highlights current gap in pricing information research in health care and proposes …

Background Determining the different features and potential impacts of community initiatives
aimed at health-related outcomes poses challenges for both researchers and policy makers …

Purpose Coproduction is both a recurrent way of organizing public services and a maturing
academic field. The academic debate has analyzed several facets, but one deserves further …

Background As coproduction in public services increases, understanding the role of
leadership in this context is essential to the tasks of establishing relational partnerships and …