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May 2013, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 214-228 Managerial Incentive and External Knowledge Acquisition Under Technological Uncertainty: A Nested System Perspective
by Yan Tian & Yuan Li & Zelong Wei - 229-243 A Rough Programming Model Based on the Greatest Compatible Classes and Synthesis Effect
by Fachao Li & Chenxia Jin & Ying Jing & Marzena Wilamowska‐Korsak & Zhuming Bi - 244-259 An ARIMA‐ANN Hybrid Model for Time Series Forecasting
by Li Wang & Haofei Zou & Jia Su & Ling Li & Sohail Chaudhry - 260-271 Laissez–Faire or Intervention: A Reflection on Maintaining System Sustainability
by Jian Zhong Chen - 272-286 Applying Electromagnetic Field Theory to Study the Synergistic Relationships Between Technology Standardization and Technology Development
by Hong Jiang & Shukuan Zhao & Xiangyu Wang & Zhuming Bi - 287-299 A System Framework of Security Management in Enterprise Systems
by Feng Wang & Baoshan Ge & Li Zhang & Yong Chen & Yang Xin & Xiayuan Li - 300-353 Operations Research (OR) in Service Industries: A Comprehensive Review
by Yiting Xing & Ling Li & Zhuming Bi & Marzena Wilamowska‐Korsak & Li Zhang - 354-366 Effects of Top Management Team Heterogeneous Background and Behavioural Attributes on the Performance of New Ventures
by Li Cai & Qing Liu & Xiaoyu Yu - 367-382 Identifying Influential Factors of Knowledge Sharing in Emergency Events: A Virtual Community Perspective
by Siqing Shan & Tenglong Xin & Li Wang & You Li & Ling Li - 383-397 Governance Mechanisms and New Venture Performance in China
by Chen Chen & Xiumei Zhu & Jiayue Ao & Li Cai - 398-411 Streaming Media Advertising: An Empirical Study
by Siqing Shan & Zhonghui Mao & Ronggang Zhou & Zhilian Liu & Feng Wu
March 2013, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 104-115 A Systems Thinking Approach to identify Leverage Points for Sustainability: A Case Study in the Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam
by Nam C. Nguyen & Ockie J. H. Bosch - 116-135 Managing Complex Issues through Evolutionary Learning Laboratories
by Ockie J. H. Bosch & Nam C. Nguyen & Takashi Maeno & Toshiyuki Yasui - 136-155 Anthropocentrism and Well‐being: A Way Out of the Lobster Pot?
by Janet Judy McIntyre‐Mills - 156-175 Conflict Theory, Complexity and Systems Approach
by Giorgio Gallo - 176-193 Combining Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory with Analytic Network Process to Perform an Investigation of Information Technology Auditing and Risk Control in an Enterprise Resource Planning Environment
by Wen‐Hsien Tsai & Yu‐Wei Chou & Kuen‐Chang Lee & Wan‐Rung Lin & Elliott T.Y. Hwang - 194-203 Predicting Students' Progression in Higher Education by Using the Random Forest Algorithm
by Julie Hardman & Alberto Paucar‐Caceres & Alan Fielding - 204-209 The 57th World Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences: Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco‐Civilization. Hai Phong City, Viet Nam, 14–19 July 2013
by Zhichang Zhu
January 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 2-14 Equifinality in Project Management Exploring Causal Complexity in Projects
by Maria Kapsali - 15-30 The Appreciative Inquiry Method—A Suitable Candidate for Action Research?
by Frank Stowell - 31-42 Contemporary Iconography for Rich Picture Construction
by Tessa Berg & Rob Pooley - 43-55 Science and its Discontents: Is There an End to Knowing?
by Gennady Shkliarevsky - 56-64 A Pragmatic System of Decision Criteria
by Mike Metcalfe - 65-75 Expanding a System of Systems Model with the Schelling Segregation Model
by W. Clifton Baldwin & John T. Boardman & Brian J. Sauser - 76-85 Kiron System, an Integration of Living and Artificial Systems (Buildings Case)
by Ernesto C. Curiel‐Carias - 86-97 A Research Paper: Providing E‐Learning Support to Part‐Time Students in Business Disciplines Using Facebook from the Multi‐Perspective, Systems‐Based (MPSB) Perspective
by Joseph Kim‐keung Ho - 98-101 Sustainable Organizations: A Simple Matter of Evidence
by Merrelyn Emery
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