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January 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1
November 2012, Volume 29, Issue 6
- 541-546 Developing Sustainable Strategies with System Dynamics
by David C. Lane & Jürgen Strohhecker & Andreas Größler - 547-570 Implementing Sustainable Business Strategies
by Jürgen Strohhecker & Andreas Größler - 571-574 Implementing Strategies: The Strohhecker–Groessler Study and the Need for a New Way of Thinking
by Markus Schwaninger - 575-589 Designing Sustainable Food Security Policies in Sub‐Saharan African Countries: How Social Dynamics Over‐Ride Utility Evaluations for Good and Bad
by Birgit Kopainsky & Katharine Tröger & Sebastian Derwisch & Silvia Ulli‐Beer - 590-595 What Is a ‘Policy Insight’?
by David C. Lane - 596-619 Mapping Maritime Sustainability Issues with Stakeholder Groups
by Nuno Videira & Rita Lopes & Paula Antunes & Rui Santos & José Luís Casanova - 620-623 Does Group Model Building Work? Evidence from and Comments on the Paper by Videira et al
by Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette - 624-644 Dynamics of Journal Impact Factors
by Stefan N. Groesser - 645-666 Metaphorical Models for Limits to Growth and Industrialization
by John D. W. Morecroft - 667-668 Are Metaphorical Models Really Helpful? Comment on the Paper by Morecroft
by Jörn‐Henrik Thun - 669-673 Sustainability for System Dynamics: A Socratic Dialogue
by Andreas J. Harbig & Craig A. Stephens - 674-676 A Commonwealth of Learning: In Celebration of the Workshop's Guest of Honour Peter Milling
by David C. Lane & Jürgen Strohhecker & Andreas Größler
September 2012, Volume 29, Issue 5
- 465-469 Four Conditions for Serious Systems Thinking and Action
by Peter Checkland - 470-483 Systems Thinking: Common Ground or Untapped Territory?
by Pamela Buckle Henning & Wan‐Ching Chen - 484-498 A Systematic Consideration of Observational Design Decisions in the Theory Construction Process
by Duncan R. Shaw & Timothy F. H. Allen - 499-516 A Complex Adaptive Systems View of Resilience in a Project Team
by Mary C. Edson - 517-526 A Transdisciplinary World Model
by Anthony Hodgson - 527-538 R‐Theory: A Synthesis of Robert Rosen's Relational Complexity
by John J. Kineman - 539-539 Letter to the Editor
by Werner Ulrich
July 2012, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 342-367 Operational Closure and Self‐Reference: On the Logic of Organizational Change
by Markus Schwaninger & Stefan N. Groesser - 368-376 Understanding Political Consulting: A Systems‐Theoretical View
by Isabel Kusche - 377-386 Rewriting Theory: From Autopoiesis to Communication
by Raf Vanderstraeten - 387-401 Inclusion and Exclusion—A Guiding Distinction to the Understanding of Issues of Cultural Background
by Jan Inge Jönhill - 402-419 Organizational Design and Firm‐Wide Collaboration: Retrospective Appreciation of a Change‐Led Consulting Intervention in India within a Systems Thinking Paradigm
by Rajneesh Chowdhury - 420-435 Public–Private Partnerships from a Systems Perspective: A Case in the English National Health Service
by Thanos Papadopoulos - 436-447 Are We Surrounded by Penguins? The Diffusion of System Dynamics in Academia Analysed with System Dynamics
by Jörn‐Henrik Thun & Jürgen Strohhecker - 448-456 Knowledge: A Measurable Universal Phenomenon of Life
by James R. Simms & Patrick J. Johnson
May 2012, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 239-239 Editorial
by Mike C. Jackson - 240-252 A Multiparadigm Approach to Developing Policy for the Location of Recreational Facilities
by Mark John Taylor & Emma Higgins & Mike Francis & Hulya Francis - 253-262 The Institutionalist Implications of the General Systems Theory: The Societal Role of the Market
by Vladislav Valentinov - 263-273 Coping with System Sustainability: A Sociocybernetics Model for Social‐Economic System Architecture
by Guohua Bai & Lawrence Henesey - 274-284 Failures in the Strategic Development Process: Ontology, Axiology and Intra‐Organizational Behavioral Limits to Social Becoming
by Leonardo S. Fiorelli - 285-298 Learning in the Context of Diversity. Distorted Discourses in Large‐Group Interventions
by Nicole J. Saam - 299-316 Introducing Heterogeneity of Managers' Attitude into Behavioral Risk Scoring for Software Offshoring
by Xiaojun Shi & Hiroshi Tsuji & Shunming Zhang - 317-332 Flow Experience and Internet Shopping Behavior: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Consumer Characteristics
by Chia‐Lin Hsu & Kuo‐Chien Chang & Mu‐Chen Chen - 339-339 Book Review
by Zhichang Zhu & Janet McIntyre
March 2012, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 101-103 Editorial
by Ya Li & Catherine M. Gerard & Zhichang Zhu - 104-115 Lessons from the Trenches: Twenty Years of Using Systems Thinking in Natural Resource Conflict Situations
by Steven E. Daniels & Gregg B. Walker - 116-130 Collaborative Problem Solving in a Complex Governance System: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and the Challenge to Break Path Dependency
by Arwin van Buuren & Frank Boons & Geert Teisman - 131-148 Recognizing Uncertainty and Linked Decisions in Public Participation: A New Framework for Collaborative Urban Planning
by Arnab Chakraborty - 149-162 Mediation in Conflict Systems
by Louis Kriesberg - 163-178 Is Cooperation a Panacea? The Effect of Cooperative Response to Task Conflict on Team Performance
by Zhen‐Jiao Chen & Xin Qin & Douglas Vogel - 179-193 Group Model‐Building ‘Scripts’ as a Collaborative Planning Tool
by Peter S. Hovmand & David F. Andersen & Etiënne Rouwette & George P. Richardson & Krista Rux & Annaliese Calhoun - 194-208 Using Visual Representations as Boundary Objects to Resolve Conflict in Collaborative Model‐Building Approaches
by Laura J. Black & David F. Andersen - 209-220 Learning from Conflict Resolution: An Opportunity to Systems Thinking
by Ya Li & Zhichang Zhu & Catherine M. Gerard - 221-226 The Grit that Makes the Pearl: Collaborative Problem Solving in the Midst of National Crisis
by Indianna D. Minto‐Coy - 227-231 Resolving Forest Property Rights Disputes in China: The Bailian Case
by Zhen Lin & Fan Dai & David A. Sonnenfeld
January 2012, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial
by Amanda Gregory - 2-13 The Person on the Street's Understanding of Systems Thinking
by Paula Dawidowicz - 14-29 Educating Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Experience with a Developing Country
by Nam C. Nguyen & Doug Graham & Helen Ross & Kambiz Maani & Ockie Bosch - 30-45 Stages and Dimensions of Systems Intelligence
by Rachel Jones & James Corner - 46-65 Enacting Significance: A New Perspective on the Nature of Information within Systems
by Paul Beynon‐Davies - 66-86 Diagnosing, Simulating and Improving Business Process Using Cybernetic Laws and the Viable System Model: The Case of a Purchasing Process
by Ali Azadeh & Kosar Darivandi & Ehsan Fathi - 87-100 A Soft and Hard Systems Approach to Business Process Management
by Rajenlall Siriram
March 2008, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 143-144 In memory of Jean P. van Gigch
by Monique De Santis - 145-146 Remembering John: friend, sponsor, mentor
by Enrique G. Herrscher - 147-150 Systemic ethics: expanding the boundaries of rights and responsibilities
by Janet J. McIntyre‐Mills - 151-156 The ethics of governance projects: ethics in personal and public lives
by Jean‐Pierre van Gigch - 157-179 Metadecision making: rehabilitating interdisciplinarity in the decision sciences
by David Matthews - 181-191 Ethics, economics and environmental complexity: the mud flow disaster in East Java
by Dani Muhtada - 193-213 Reconsidering relationships across self, others, the environment and technology
by Janet J. McIntyre‐Mills - 215-224 Ethics, categories and identity: counting on quantification. Ethnicity in Australian history
by Janette Young - 225-248 Systemic ethics: social, economic and environmental implications of eating our yellow cake in South Australia
by Janet. J. Mcintyre‐Mills - 249-270 A score card for ethical decision making
by Francisco Parra‐Luna - 271-276 The ethics of emergence
by Ken Bausch - 277-281 Practical ethics for group decisions in complex situations
by Ken Bausch - 283-290 Does health care for systemic development?
by James Sheffield - 291-303 Proposing rhizomatic systems methodology: extending Churchman's pragmatism to post‐structuralism
by Jae Eon Yu & Hyoung Koo Moon & Hyoung Chul Kim - 305-321 How can we break the mould? Democracy, semiotics and regional governance
by Janet J. McIntyre‐Mills & Denise de Vries & Aleco Christakis & Ken Bausch - 323-329 Mobius bands and Mandelbrot sets as metaphors for systemic praxis
by Janet J. McIntyre‐Mills - 331-348 Communication praxis for ethical accountability: the ethics of the Tree of Action: dialogue and breaking down the wall in Cyprus
by Y. Laouris & R. Laouri & Aleco Christakis - 349-353 Meta, macro and micro ethics: essay in honour of John van Gigch
by Dennis Finlayson - 355-357 Complexity, a challenge to governance—postscript from a friend
by Charles François