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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerald Robert Midgley is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is known for his work on "Systemic Intervention;" which he defined as "purposeful action by an agent to create change in relation to reflection upon boundaries."
Gerald Midgley's Published Works
Published Works
- Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice (2000) (891)
- The theory and practice of boundary critique: developing housing services for older people (1998) (259)
- Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (2018) (220)
- The sacred and profane in critical systems thinking (1992) (183)
- Systemic intervention for public health. (2006) (179)
- Science as Systemic Intervention: Some Implications of Systems Thinking and Complexity for the Philosophy of Science (2003) (158)
- Towards a new framework for evaluating systemic problem structuring methods (2013) (139)
- Pluralism and the legitimation of systems science (1992) (120)
- What Is This Thing Called CST (1996) (113)
- Dealing with coercion: Critical Systems Heuristics and beyond (1997) (99)
- Systems thinking for evaluation (2007) (99)
- COMMUNITY OPERATIONAL RESEARCH: OR AND SYSTEMS THINKING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2004) (87)
- What Is This Thing Called CRITICAL Systems Thinking (1995) (86)
- What is Community Operational Research? (2017) (85)
- Theoretical Pluralism in Systemic Action Research (2011) (85)
- Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened? (2020) (83)
- Broadening the boundaries: an application of critical systems thinking to IS planning in Colombia (2006) (78)
- Unfolding a Theory of Systemic Intervention (2001) (76)
- Developing the methodology of TSI: From the oblique use of methods to creative design (1997) (74)
- Systemic problem structuring applied to community involvement in water conservation (2007) (72)
- Planning for disaster: developing a multi-agency counselling service (2000) (71)
- Practitioner identity in systemic intervention: reflections on the promotion of environmental health through Māori community development (2007) (68)
- Systems/operational research and sustainable development: towards a new agenda (2004) (67)
- Systemic evaluation: a participative, multi-method approach (2007) (64)
- Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research (2017) (64)
- Boundary critique and its implications for conflict prevention (2011) (61)
- Systems thinking, complexity and the philosophy of science (2008) (56)
- Systemic Lean Intervention: Enhancing Lean with Community Operational Research (2017) (55)
- Visions of community for community OR (1999) (52)
- Beyond organisational agendas: using boundary critique to facilitate the inclusion of societal concerns in information systems planning (2008) (49)
- Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions (2020) (48)
- Developing a systemic model for the evaluation of conflicts (2000) (47)
- Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 1: Comparisons between Buddhism and Systems Theory (2007) (45)
- Systems Thinking for Community Involvement in Policy Analysis (2007) (45)
- Boundary games: How teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention (2016) (44)
- Addressing organisational and societal concerns: an application of critical systems thinking to information systems planning in Colombia (2020) (44)
- Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Mental Health Problems: A Feasibility Study for New Initiatives (1995) (43)
- Issues Mapping: A problem structuring method for addressing science and technology conflicts (2014) (43)
- Dealing with challenges to methodological pluralism: The paradigm problem, psychological resistance and cultural barriers (2017) (43)
- Boundary critique (2003) (40)
- Knowing Differently in Systemic Intervention (2014) (37)
- RETHINKING THE UNITY OF SCIENCE (2001) (36)
- Ecology and the poverty of humanism: A critical systems perspective (2007) (36)
- Critical systems and the problem of pluralism (1989) (34)
- Systems design in education (1992) (32)
- The Ideal of Unity and the Practice of Pluralism in Systems Science (1996) (32)
- Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 2: An Exploratory, Questioning Approach (2007) (32)
- Systemic Mediation: Moral Reasoning and Boundaries of Concern (2013) (32)
- Systemic intervention for community OR: Developing services with young people (under 16) living on the streets (2004) (31)
- Dealing with Human Relations in Chinese Systems Practice (2000) (30)
- Systems Thinking for the 21st Century (2000) (25)
- An Introduction to Community Operational Research (2004) (24)
- Planning for Disaster (2000) (23)
- Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory (2014) (21)
- Canterbury Water Management Strategy (2014) (21)
- Unity and pluralism (1992) (20)
- Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications (2018) (20)
- Systemic intervention for computer-supported collaborative learning (2015) (18)
- Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 3: An Application in a Taiwanese Non-Governmental Organization (2007) (18)
- Towards a heart and soul for co-creative research practice: a systemic approach (2019) (17)
- TOWARDS A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING SYSTEMIC AND PARTICIPATIVE METHODS (2007) (16)
- Rethinking Stakeholder Involvement: An Application of the Theories of Autopoiesis and Boundary Critique to IS Planning (2000) (16)
- Moving beyond value conflicts : Systemic problem structuring in action (2020) (15)
- A systems perspective on systemic innovation (2021) (15)
- The Social Context of Vocational Rehabilitation for Ex-psychiatric Patients (1990) (15)
- Enhancing Lean Interventions through the use of Systems Thinking in the food production industry: a case in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (2015) (14)
- Evaluating Services for People with Disabilities (1996) (14)
- Operational research and environmental management: a new agenda enhancing the contribution of operational research to environmental planning and management: a report to the OR Society (2001) (14)
- Critical Systems Thinking, Systemic Intervention, and Beyond (2021) (14)
- Response to paper "Systems thinking" by D. Cabrera et al.: the unification of systems thinking: is there gold at the end of the rainbow? (2008) (13)
- Systemic evaluation of community environmental management programmes (2009) (13)
- What is systemic innovation (2020) (13)
- Action research in a problem avoiding culture using a Buddhist systems methodology (2015) (13)
- Part Special Issue Editorial: The process of OR (2002) (11)
- Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding (2020) (11)
- Systems Thinking: Volume I General Systems Theory, Cybernetics and Complexity (2003) (11)
- Theory and practice in operational research (1998) (11)
- Community and Environmental OR: Towards a New Agenda (2004) (11)
- Developing a Systemic Program Evaluation Methodology: A Critical Systems Perspective (2018) (11)
- Vocational training in the use of new technologies for people with disabilities (1990) (10)
- Systems Practice in China: New Developments and Cross-Cultural Collaborations (2000) (10)
- Learning across boundaries: exploring the variety of systems theory and practice (2015) (10)
- Negotiating food systems resilience (2020) (10)
- Capacity-Building for Evaluation: A Report on the HAZE Project to the Manchester, Salford and Trafford Health Action Zone (2001) (10)
- General systems theory, cybernetics and complexity (2003) (9)
- Towards a New Framework for Evaluating Participative and Systemic Methods (2009) (9)
- The Nature of Critical Self-Reflection (1995) (9)
- Antimicrobials in Animal Agriculture: Parables and Policy (2015) (9)
- Home and Away: Developing Services with Young People Missing from Home or Care (1999) (9)
- Four domains of complexity (2016) (9)
- A reply to Haridimos Tsoukas, the radical critic of radical critique (1993) (9)
- Philosophical Foundations for the Modern Systems Movement (2014) (8)
- Bringing Foresight into Systems Thinking: A Three Horizon Approach (2015) (8)
- Systems thinking and complexity science: insights for action : proceedings of the 11th ANZSYS/Managing the Complex V Conference (held in Christchurch, New Zealand, 5th-7th December, 2005) (2006) (7)
- Second order cybernetics, systemic therapy and soft systems thinking (2003) (7)
- Scoping the potential uses of systems thinking in developing policy on illicit drugs (2005) (6)
- Boundary critique and community involvement in watershed management (2004) (6)
- Ethical Dilemmas: A reply to Richard Ormerod (1999) (5)
- Editorial Introduction to the Special Double Issue on Complexity Thinking and Systems Theory (2007) (5)
- Critical Systems Criteria for Evaluating Interventions (1997) (5)
- Systems thinking for social responsibility (2003) (5)
- Final reply to Reynolds—towards an enhanced OR for environmental management (2002) (4)
- Developing Housing Services for Older People (2000) (4)
- Genetic Suspects: Finding the balance: forensic DNA profiling in New Zealand (2010) (4)
- Participative learning for evaluation: a systems approach to the development of evaluation capability for community projects (2003) (4)
- Critical systems thinking and systemic perspectives on ethics, power and pluralism (2003) (4)
- From the Ashes of Despair... (1993) (3)
- Viewpoint-ethical dilemmas. Author's reply (1999) (3)
- Systemic evaluation tree flexible and inclusive approaches (2002) (3)
- Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity (2006) (3)
- Renewing the critique of the theory of knowledge-constitutive interests: a reply to Martin Reynolds (2002) (3)
- Value driven innovation in industrial companies : A complexity approach (2015) (2)
- Water Augmentation for the Waimea Plains: Community Values and Water Management Options (2005) (2)
- Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights (2022) (2)
- SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION WITH COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (COP): A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (2013) (2)
- Continuing the dialogue: a response to Roger Adams and Andy McCullough (2003) (2)
- Evaluating How System Health Assessment Can Trigger Anticipatory Action for Resilience (2018) (2)
- Forensic DNA Evidence on Trial: Science and Uncertainty in the Courtroom (2011) (2)
- Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened? (2020) (2)
- Guest editorial: Developments in critical systems thinking (1992) (2)
- Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda (2023) (2)
- The influence of Michel Foucault (1992) (1)
- Social Work Handbook (2011) (1)
- The Systems Idea (2000) (1)
- A systems approach to the conduct of systems science (1991) (1)
- Systems thinking and ecology (1993) (1)
- Systems of zoonoses on dairy farms (2005) (1)
- Systemic intervention: theory, methodology and practice (2018) (1)
- TOWARDS A NEW AGENDA FOR OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2002) (1)
- A Systemic Intervention Approach to Research on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2011) (1)
- Developments in IT training for people with disabilities (1990) (1)
- A systems theory of marginalization and its implications for systemic intervention (2021) (1)
- Participative Learning for Evaluation : A systems approach to the development of evaluation capability in community health projects (2003) (1)
- Developing Services with Young People (Under 16) Missing from Home or Care (2000) (1)
- Managing stories about quality (2014) (1)
- Exploring Boundaries in Food Systems Research Implications for Projects on UK Food Security (2020) (1)
- Book review editorial systems research into disability and disadvantage (1992) (0)
- Book reviews (1991) (0)
- Systemic therapy (1997) (0)
- Learning about Methodology and Methods (2000) (0)
- Systems thinking and philosophical enquiry (1993) (0)
- Russell L. Ackoff Centennial Celebration - Panel Presentation (2019) (0)
- Planning and Evaluating Diversion from Custody for Mentally Disordered Offenders (2000) (0)
- Book reviews (1991) (0)
- Creating a Safe Space for Multi-Level Participation in Integrative, Systemic Planning: The Case of Climate-Change Adaptation in Ghana (2023) (0)
- Operational Research: Methods and Applications (2023) (0)
- Systems practice in Hollywood (1992) (0)
- Book reviews (1993) (0)
- 2. Midgley.p65 (2003) (0)
- Chapter 15 REFLECTIONS ON THE CPTS MODEL OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY (0)
- The new technology of systems practice (1992) (0)
- Evaluation for Health: Improving the evaluation practices of voluntary organizations and their partners in the “health” sector (2001) (0)
- Festschrift for Mike Jackson: Call for papers for a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science (2022) (0)
- Systems practice in organizations (1994) (0)
- Does PASS measure up? Evaluating a measure of service quality (1992) (0)
- Book reviews (1991) (0)
- Systems thinking for inter-disciplinary dialogue (2004) (0)
- Systemic innovation: Towards a new paradigm in systems thinking and innovation (2022) (0)
- Systems theories and modelling (2003) (0)
- Resurrecting Bogdanov on the 150th anniversary of his birth (2023) (0)
- Modelling zoonotic factors: A means to manage microbial contamination from farming (2006) (0)
- The brain in the machine, or the machine in the brain? (1994) (0)
- Organizational networks (1994) (0)
- Book reviews (1991) (0)
- The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique: An Application to Community Involvement in Water Conservation (2009) (0)
- Interpretive Systemology and Systemic Practice (2002) (0)
- Variety in systems thinking (1993) (0)
- Operational research and corporate R&D (1993) (0)
- PRODUCING SYSTEMS Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis (2009) (0)
- Reviewing books systemically (1994) (0)
- Empowerment, participation, and democracy (1993) (0)
- Boundary critique as a means for improving the effectiveness of water conservation campaigns and community involvement in watershed management (2004) (0)
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