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Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management (1998) (866)
Action Research for Management Research (1996) (684)
The analysis of cause maps (1992) (587)
Analyzing cognitive maps to help structure issues or problems (2004) (556)
ON THE NATURE OF COGNITIVE MAPS (1992) (534)
Strategic management of stakeholders : theory and practice (2011) (460)
BookOn systems analysis : David Berlinski 186 pages, £ 10.25 (Cambridge, Mass, and London, MIT Press, 1976)☆ (1978) (421)
The Challenge of Collaborative Governance (2000) (405)
Messing about in problems (1983) (305)
Action research for the study of organizations (1996) (304)
Cognitive mapping expert views for policy analysis in the public sector (2004) (282)
Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work? (2016) (265)
Putting the Resource-Based View of Strategy and Distinctive Competencies to Work in Public Organizations (2007) (261)
Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results (2004) (243)
SODA - The principles (2001) (242)
Thinking in organizations (1979) (206)
Tackling Strategic Problems: The Role of Group Decision Support (1991) (179)
Cognitive mapping and problem structuring for system dynamics model building (1994) (163)
Strategy development as a social process (1992) (157)
Modeling for Litigation: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (1997) (154)
Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation (2014) (152)
On evaluating the performance of 'wide-band' GDSS's (1995) (152)
The Negotiation of Purpose in Multi-Organizational Collaborative Groups (2001) (150)
The role of feedback dynamics in disruption and delay on the nature of disruption and delay (D&D) in major projects (2000) (148)
Strategic options development and analysis - SODA (1989) (143)
The Effects of Design Changes and Delays on Project Costs (1995) (142)
SODA - journey making and mapping in practice (2001) (138)
Mapping distinctive competencies: a systemic approach (2000) (131)
Where next for problem structuring methods (2006) (131)
On the nature of problems in consulting practice (1979) (120)
Group Decision and Negotiation in Strategy Making (2001) (119)
Structuring a delay and disruption claim: An application of cause-mapping and system dynamics (2003) (116)
Analysing and comparing idiographic causal maps (1998) (111)
THE INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF ISSUES AND ISSUES OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY (1981) (110)
A framework for thinking about Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) (1992) (107)
Getting Started with Cognitive Mapping (1992) (96)
Using Causal Mapping with Group Support Systems to Elicit an Understanding of Failure in Complex Projects: Some Implications for Organizational Research (2005) (96)
Using Repertory Grids for Problem Construction (1984) (95)
Strategic thinking with computers (1990) (91)
Systemic risk assessment: a case study (2007) (87)
Contrasting Single User and Networked Group Decision Support Systems for Strategy Making (2001) (87)
Negotiation in Strategy Making Teams: Group Support Systems and the Process of Cognitive Change (2011) (85)
Issues in computer and non-computer supported GDSSs (1994) (84)
ScriptsMap: A tool for designing multi-method policy-making workshops (2011) (84)
Researching organizations using action research (2006) (83)
Messing about in problems: An informal structured approach to their identification and management (1983) (80)
Approaches to sharing knowledge in group problem structuring (2003) (78)
Strategy development and implementation - the role of a group decision support system (1992) (74)
Strategic Options Development and Analysis (2010) (73)
Integrating modes of policy analysis and strategic management practice: requisite elements and dilemmas (2009) (70)
Theory into practice, practice to theory: Action research in method development (2018) (69)
The practice of making strategy a step by step guide (2005) (69)
Vicious circles of parallelism (1995) (68)
Building confidence in models for multiple audiences: The modelling cascade (2008) (68)
Publish or Perish? — A Case Study (1980) (64)
The impact of disruption and delay when compressing large projects: going for incentives? (2001) (64)
Rigour, Relevance and Reward: Introducing the Knowledge Translation Value‐Chain (2011) (63)
The Amoebic Growth of Project Costs (2005) (62)
Preface: Managerial and Organizational Cognition (2009) (61)
Problem solving or problem finishing (1987) (60)
The theory and praxis of reflective learning in strategy making (1998) (57)
Making Strategy: Mapping Out Strategic Success (2011) (55)
Analysing project cost overruns: comparing the “measured mile” analysis and system dynamics modelling (2005) (54)
Communities of practice in landscapes of practice (2019) (48)
Towards a resilience management guideline — Cities as a starting point for societal resilience (2019) (47)
Keeping Sense of Accounts Using Computer-Based Cognitive Maps (1990) (46)
Problem structuring: on the nature of, and reaching agreement about, goals (2013) (46)
A mapping framework for strategy making (2002) (45)
Using a Group Decision Support System to add Value to Group Model Building (2010) (44)
Discovering collaborative advantage: the contributions of goal categories and visual strategy mapping (2016) (43)
Operational research as negotiation (1989) (40)
Action-Oriented Strategic Management (1988) (39)
Perish the Thought! (1985) (38)
Use of 'soft-OR' models by clients - what do they want from them? (2004) (37)
O.R. in the Community (1981) (36)
Evaluating Strategy — Its Role Within the Context of Strategic Control (1993) (36)
Supporting strategic conversations: the significance of a quantitative model building process (2011) (35)
The Stakeholder/Collaborator Strategy Workshop (1996) (34)
Problem construction and the influence of OR (1995) (32)
Decision making in groups : theory and practice (2010) (31)
Integrating Modes of Systems Thinking into Strategic Planning Education and Practice: The Thinking Persons’ Institute Approach (2006) (30)
From the playpen to the bombsite: the changing nature of management science (1993) (30)
Dismantling the learning curve: the role of disruptions on the planning of development projects (1998) (30)
Competences, distinctive competences, and core competences (2010) (27)
Accelerated Multi-Organization Conflict Resolution (2016) (26)
‘Joined-Up’ Policy-Making: Group Decision and Negotiation Practice (2014) (26)
Operational Research and Organization Development (1978) (26)
Learning from project failure (2004) (25)
Management decision and decision analysis (1975) (25)
Management Science Process—Problem Construction and the Influence of O.R. (1982) (24)
Contrasting GDSSs and GSSs in the Context of Strategic Change Implications for Facilitation (1997) (23)
Images into models: the subjective world of the policy maker (1979) (23)
The development of the construction alternative futures explorer (1999) (23)
“Horses for courses”: A stakeholder approach to the evaluation of GDSSs (1996) (23)
Analysing litigation and negotiation: using a combined methodology (1997) (23)
Managing the environment as a means to managing complexity (1990) (19)
Synthetic Wisdom: The Design of a Mixed-Mode Modelling System for Organizational Decision Making (1986) (19)
Strategic options in development and analysis (SODA) - using a computer to help with the management of strategic vision (1989) (19)
Introduction to the Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation (2010) (19)
Moving between Groups and Individuals using a DSS (1992) (18)
Management Science Process—Subjectivity in Problem Identification (1981) (18)
Futures research—Working with management teams (1984) (17)
The Role of Group Decision Support Systems: Negotiating Safe Energy (2010) (17)
“Horses for courses”: A stakeholder approach to the evaluation of GDSSs (1996) (17)
An exploration of occupational role : an exercise in team development (1979) (17)
The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop - the Northern Ireland case (1996) (17)
On the nature of discontinuities in system dynamics modelling of disrupted projects (2004) (17)
Making strategy work (1990) (17)
Modelling in Marketing: Explicating Subjective Knowledge (1981) (16)
Understanding the causes and consequences of disruption and delay in complex projects: how system dynamics can help (2009) (15)
Comment on “Publish or Perish” (1980) (15)
Using the 'oval mapping process' to identify strategic issues and formulate effective strategies (1995) (15)
Modeling cognition in complex decision problems (1980) (15)
Facilitating problem definition in teams (1981) (15)
Visual Strategy: Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (2014) (15)
Modelling the influence of decision makers on the future (1977) (15)
Mapping causal knowledge: How managers consider their environment during meetings (2009) (15)
Project risk: systemicity, cause mapping and a scenario approach (2013) (15)
Learning in disrupted projects: on the nature of corporate and personal learning (2007) (14)
Policy analysis and organizational politics (1979) (14)
Operational gaming in action research (1979) (13)
POWERFUL AND INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERS MATTER: THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT. (2003) (13)
Understanding ‘expert’ scientists: implications for management and organization research (2014) (13)
Strategic options development and analysis : the principles (2001) (13)
Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Support Systems (2019) (12)
Reflections on operational research. A report from the Euro II Congress (1977) (12)
Computerised Vicarious Experience: The Future for Management Induction? (1981) (12)
Cognition simulation and learning (1980) (12)
Halfway to Infinity: Systems Theorizing for the Practitioners? (1983) (12)
Research on intuition using intuition (2014) (11)
Using causal mapping to support information systems development: some considerations (2005) (11)
Cognitive maps as a visionary tool: strategy embedded in issue management (1989) (11)
Coherence and balance in strategies for the management of public services (1992) (10)
Evaluating Group Support Systems: Improving Brainstorming Research Methodology (2002) (10)
On the nature of disruption and delay (D&D) (1999) (10)
Subjectivity and organisational politics in policy analysis (1979) (9)
The use of project post-mortems (2001) (9)
Detecting emergent strategy (1995) (8)
Reflections on operational research (1980) (8)
The role of GDSS in scenario development and strategy making (1999) (8)
Delay and Disruption in Complex Projects (2009) (8)
Computer Decision Support for Senior Mangers: Encouraging Exploration (1986) (8)
Stalking Resilience - Cities as Vertebrae in Society's Resilience Backbone (2017) (7)
Risk systemicity and city resilience (2017) (7)
Understanding “expert” scientists: Implications for management and organization research (2019) (7)
Exploring and negotiating collective action through computer-aided cognitive mapping (1992) (6)
Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Systemic Risk Assessment and Management (2021) (6)
Change within the Probation Service: Evaluation from an Action Research Perspective (1979) (5)
COPE-ing with system dynamics - a story about soft and hard OR (1994) (5)
Becoming a Nobel Laureate: patterns of a journey to the highest level of expertise (2017) (5)
Coherence And Control: Understanding The Strategic Management Of Organisations Through Modelling Strategy (1990) (5)
Coping with strategic risk (2001) (5)
Appendix: A client's perspective (1990) (5)
Misunderstandings: understanding problems and the problems of misunderstanding (1994) (4)
Critical incidents and emergent issues in the management of large scale change effects (1996) (4)
Supporting strategic conversations: the significance of the model building process (2009) (4)
Modelling the management of complex projects: industry/university collaboration (1996) (4)
LEADING STRATEGY MAKING: FACILITATING COMMITMENT TO STRATEGY (2011) (4)
Dismantling the learning curve: the role of learning in understanding disruption (1994) (4)
Facilitating facilitators – A story about group decision-making (1988) (4)
INTEGRATING MODES OF SYSTEMS THINKING INTO PUBLIC STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND PRACTICE: THE TPI APPROACH. (2006) (4)
Rules for scheduling semi-automatic machines with deterministic cycle time (1975) (4)
Problem formulation and negotiation in multi-organisational contexts (1993) (4)
The resource based view: theory and practice (2007) (4)
Contributions of Planning Under Pressure (2004) (3)
Collaborative Capability and Collaborative Maturity (1994) (3)
Smart mature resilience (2017) (3)
The oval mapping process: identifying strategic issues and formulating effective strategies (2004) (3)
System dynamics and disruption and delay in complex projects (2009) (3)
Modelling Stakeholder Dynamics for Supporting Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory to Practice (2021) (3)
Computer assisted policy analysis: Contributions from Germany (1978) (3)
Issues with the measured mile analysis (2003) (2)
“Wide-and-Open” versus “Narrow-and-Deep” group support: Which approach is better? (1997) (2)
Stakeholders in Strategy: Their ‘invisible’ but significant presence (2019) (2)
The Role of Decision Support in Individual Performance Review (1993) (2)
Supporting strategy in the public sector: issues for OR (2008) (2)
Thinking together : making communities of practice work (2015) (1)
Managing uncertainty in development projects (1994) (1)
Improvisation and Emergent Strategizing: The Role of Group Support Systems (2021) (1)
Cognitive mapping and scenarios in strategy making and risk management (1997) (1)
Group Support Systems: Concepts to Practice (2020) (1)
Delivering public value from 'above and beyond' (2012) (1)
A fitting role (1979) (1)
Cognitive/cause mapping and scenarios in risk management (1999) (1)
Application of the IDEMIX Concept for Internal Gravity Waves in the Atmosphere (2020) (1)
Stakeholders in strategy: their 'invisible' and yet an inevitable presence? (2018) (1)
Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Decision Support Systems (2017) (0)
Lessons for project management : experiences from forensic modelling (2012) (0)
Workshop on deriving research output from enterprise activities (2008) (0)
Intuitive cyclic phenomenology (2012) (0)
Group Problem Structuring and Negotiation (2015) (0)
Tackling project profitability and cost estimating (1973) (0)
Systemic risk analysis: analytical support to identify priorities from causal risk maps (2018) (0)
Editorial (1993) (0)
Behavioral Considerations in Group Support (2020) (0)
Towards a Typology of Roles in Strategy Making Workshops:Building on the Use of the GSS Data Logs (2017) (0)
Two Approaches to Group Problem Solving (1992) (0)
Exploring GSS negotiation – the use of a GSS log (2016) (0)
Discussion Summary (1993) (0)
Mapping group knowledge: Structuring the information sharing process (2004) (0)
Figuring Out Collaborative Advantage: The Contributions of Visual Strategy Mapping (2015) (0)
Elicitation and analysis of systemicity within project risk (1999) (0)
Unpacking resources: some considerations with respect to efficacy and nature (2008) (0)
and it seems likely that they will differ from those of Professor Machol. (2016) (0)
Procedural justice and cooperative behavior: passion and compassion in innovation (2010) (0)
The contribution of the designer in the custom-build engineering company (1973) (0)
Discovering core competencies: working with patterns of distinctive competences and competences (2005) (0)
Issues in establishing blame in disrupted projects (2019) (0)
Adding reality to role play (1981) (0)
Systemic risk filter (2000) (0)
Delay and disruption (D and D) claims: preparing them and learning lessons for future projects (2001) (0)
Risk systemicity: promoting interdisciplinary working in cities (2018) (0)
Using cognitive mapping to develop a large forensic systems dynamics model (1994) (0)
Identifying and making use of distinctive competencies in public and non-profit organizations (2005) (0)
Integrating modes of systems thinking into public strategies management education and practice (2006) (0)
‘Joined-Up’ Policy-Making: Group Decision and Negotiation Practice (2013) (0)
A MAXIMUM PROFIT PRODUCT TO PLEASE THE CUSTOMER (1973) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Problem centred role play : the challenge of open ended simulation (1986) (0)
An application of IT to strategy formulation in construction firms (1997) (0)
Knowledge Acquisition Using Group Support Systems (2019) (0)
Pyrko, Igor and Eden, Colin and Dörfler, Viktor and Stierand, Marc (2017) Facilitating communities of practice with causal mapping workshops. In: IFKAD (2018) (0)
Exploring & developing strategy theory through practice (2014) (0)
Making strategy through the prioritization and management of key issues (2011) (0)
A resource-based view of entrepreneurship: passion, dedication, commitment, will and motivation. (2010) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Computers/Ordinateurs (1993) (0)
Making sense in the field: approaches and implications for researchers and practitioners (2002) (0)
The development of an industry futures bulletin (1996) (0)
Editor's note: the following letter from Colin Eden is in reply to the response of Paul Finlay and Chris Marples to the letter from Professor Eden which appeared in the previous issue of OR Insight. (1992) (0)
Accelerated Multi-Organization Conflict Resolution (2016) (0)
Facilitating strategy development with management teams: leadership, identity and models (2008) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1992) (0)
Elicitation, analysis and mitigation of systemic pandemic risks (2021) (0)
The risk systemicity questionnaire: using causal risk mapping to support resilience building in cities (2017) (0)
Conference Viewpoints: Invited Reviews (1985) (0)
Barbi: a simplified general circulation model for a baroclinic ocean with topography (2003) (0)
Intuition as a research method for investigating the extraordinary (2011) (0)
Facilitating communities of practice with causal mapping workshops (2017) (0)

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