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Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game (2023)
Journal Article
Sydelko, P., Espinosa, A., & Midgley, G. (2024). Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game. European journal of operational research, 312(2), 746-764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.06.040

Government agencies struggle to address wicked problems because they are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. While both quantitative modelling and qualitative problem s... Read More about Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game.

Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems (2022)
Thesis
Sydelko, P. J. (2022). Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4321188

Conventional approaches to government are confounded by issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. These open-ended and highly interdependent issues are often characterized in the literature as ‘wicked problem... Read More about Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems.

Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding (2020)
Journal Article
Sydelko, P., Midgley, G., & Espinosa, A. (2021). Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding. European journal of operational research, 24(1), 250-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.045

Wicked problems are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. In response, there has been advocacy for interagency working. However, this confounds conventional approaches to... Read More about Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding.

Complexity management and multi-scale governance : a case study in an Amazonian indigenous association (2017)
Journal Article
Espinosa, A., & Duque, C. (2018). Complexity management and multi-scale governance : a case study in an Amazonian indigenous association. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1006-1020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.049

Even if Community Operational Research provides methodologies and tools to support community development, there are no published works illustrating how we can support an assessment of self-governance in an indigenous community using COR tools. In thi... Read More about Complexity management and multi-scale governance : a case study in an Amazonian indigenous association.

Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model (2015)
Journal Article
Panagiotakopoulos, P. D., Espinosa Salazar, A. M., & Walker, J. (2016). Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model. Journal of cleaner production, 113, 792-806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.11.035

A review of current literature on sustainability standards reveals a significant gap between their adoption and the implementation of sustainability into every level of the organisation. In this paper, it is argued that in order to overcome this chal... Read More about Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model.

Integrated sustainability management for organizations (2015)
Journal Article
Panagiotakopoulos, P., Espinosa, A., & Walker, J. (2015). Integrated sustainability management for organizations. Kybernetes, 44(6/7), 984-1004. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-12-2014-0291

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose the Viable System Model (VSM) as an effective model to base the analysis of organizational sustainability (long-term viability). It is specifically proposed as a model to integrate the various sustai... Read More about Integrated sustainability management for organizations.

Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice (2015)
Journal Article
Espinosa, A. (2015). Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice. Kybernetes, 44(6-7), 955-969. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-02-2015-0043

Purpose – While there is some agreement on the usefulness of systems and complexity approaches to tackle the sustainability challenges facing the organisations and governments in the twenty-first century, less is clear regarding the way such approach... Read More about Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice.