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Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility (2023)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, R., Gregory, A., & Queah, M. (2023). Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility. Systems research and behavioral science, https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2955

Holistic Flexibility is a conceptual lens in systems thinking that enables intellectual, emotional and tactical elasticity in systems practice. This paper will demonstrate Holistic Flexibility in practice in an NGO setting to design and implement a p... Read More about Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility.

Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice (2022)
Book Chapter
Gregory, A. J., & Atkins, J. P. (2022). Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice. In A. Taylor (Ed.), Rethinking Leadership for a Green World (176-189). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190820-10

Climate change is recognised by many to be the defining adaptive challenge of our time. Despite such recognition, the failure of many world leaders to comprehend the scale, scope (bringing a complex mix of environmental, economic and social dimension... Read More about Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice.

Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Gregory, A. J., Atkins, J. P., Midgley, G., & Hodgson, A. (2020). Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. European journal of operational research, 283(1), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.10.044

© 2019 The Authors This paper addresses the under-researched issue of stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions. A concise framework is proposed to aid critical reflection in the design and reporting of stakeholde... Read More about Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions.

Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other? (2017)
Journal Article
Gregory, A. J., & Atkins, J. P. (2018). Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other?. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1111-1124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.037

Citizen Science attracts a lot of positive attention and a convenient alignment with it might offer multiple benefits for Community Operational Research. But what would be the basis for such an alignment? Could it offer important reciprocal benefits... Read More about Community operational research and citizen science: two icons in need of each other?.

Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Gregory, A., & Ronan, M. (2015). Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66(4), 627-636. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2014.27

This paper provides an account of an ongoing project with an independent school in the UK. The project focuses on a strategy development intervention which, from the start, was systemic in orientation. The intention was to integrate simple systems co... Read More about Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective.

Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school (2014)
Journal Article
Miller, S., & Gregory, A. (2014). Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school. Systems, 2(4), 313-327. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems2030313

This paper explores what it means for a business school to embed systems thinking and sustainability into the curriculum by looking at both the application of systems thinking to the design of sustainable programmes and the teaching of system thinkin... Read More about Using systems thinking to educate for sustainability in a business school.