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Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation (2025)
Journal Article
Brooker, E., Midgley, G., Burns, N., Trotman, C. E., Gregory, A., & Hopkins, C. R. (2025). Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), Article 241. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02155-x

Public concern over global climate change and biodiversity loss has accelerated international efforts to restore natural ecosystems through nature-based solutions. Rewilding is a growing conservation approach encompassing the recovery of ecological a... Read More about Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation.

The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership (2025)
Journal Article
Flostrand, A., Park, A., Demetis, D., Kietzmann, J., Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. (2025). The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership. MIT Sloan Management Review, 66(3), 16-18

Organizations concerned with cybersecurity risk may dedicate more managerial resources to the issue, but new research finds that this has the potential to heighten rather than reduce risk. Individuals in senior cybersecurity were found to routinely o... Read More about The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership.

Quantifying speculative-bubble effects in major European soccer leagues (2025)
Journal Article
Fry, J., & Binner, J. (2025). Quantifying speculative-bubble effects in major European soccer leagues. Economics letters, 248, Article 112208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112208

We apply the theory of super-exponential rational bubbles to football transfer data. Refining previous qualitative approaches we model the aggregate transfer spend as a fraction of the TV income. Evidence of substantial bubble effects is found across... Read More about Quantifying speculative-bubble effects in major European soccer leagues.

Festschrift for Mike Jackson (2024)
Journal Article
Dwivedi, A., & Midgley, G. (2025). Festschrift for Mike Jackson. Systems research and behavioral science, 42(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3127

This is the editorial for a festschrift for Mike Jackson. We begin by outlining six phases of Jackson's research, from 1982 to the present day: an initial critique of soft systems thinking and soft operational research (OR); a proposal for methodolog... Read More about Festschrift for Mike Jackson.

Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, A., & Midgley, G. (online). Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension. Systems research and behavioral science, 42(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3096

A dilemma in critical systems thinking is how to balance a desire for critique to inspire far-reaching transformations in society with the requirement for people to reach accommodations to enable on-the-ground change. Both critique and accommodation... Read More about Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension.

The technological construction of reality (2024)
Book
Demetis, D. S., & Angell, I. (2024). The technological construction of reality. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101199

This visionary book delves into the world-shaping abilities of modern technology, outlining the potential future transformations that it may impose. By drawing from a range of scholarly insights, Dionysios S. Demetis and Ian O. Angell explore how tec... Read More about The technological construction of reality.

An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election (2024)
Journal Article
Fry, J., Hastings, T., & Binner, J. (online). An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2024.2334339

A subjective probability argument suggests vote-share estimates from polling companies can be interpreted as market prices. The corresponding election constitutes the price at a known future date. This makes an options-pricing approach particularly a... Read More about An options-pricing approach to forecasting the French presidential election.

Toward System Change to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: Improving the Voluntary Stewardship of Antimicrobials in US Agriculture (2023)
Report
Midgley, G., Elkins, A., Loneragan, G. H., Babowicz, M., Dass, M., Grohn, Y. T., Jordan, E., Lhermie, G., Lunt, L., McIntosh, W. A., Piñeiro, J. M., Sawyer, J., & Scott, H. M. (2023). Toward System Change to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: Improving the Voluntary Stewardship of Antimicrobials in US Agriculture. Texas A&M AgriLife Research

From Executive Summary:
This report presents the details of a research study looking at the potential for improving voluntary stewardship of antimicrobials in US agriculture, in the interests of tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Failure to ad... Read More about Toward System Change to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: Improving the Voluntary Stewardship of Antimicrobials in US Agriculture.

Operational Research: Methods and Applications (2023)
Journal Article
Petropoulos, F., Laporte, G., Aktas, E., Alumur, S. A., Archetti, C., Ayhan, H., Battarra, M., Bennell, J. A., Bourjolly, J. M., Boylan, J. E., Breton, M., Canca, D., Charlin, L., Chen, B., Cicek, C. T., Cox Jr, L., Currie, C. S., Demeulemeester, E., Ding, L., Disney, S. M., …Zhao, X. (2023). Operational Research: Methods and Applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 75(3), 423–617. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2253852

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications. The first summar... Read More about Operational Research: Methods and Applications.

The Four Waves of Systems Thinking (2023)
Journal Article
Cabrera, D., Cabrera, L., & Midgley, G. (2023). The Four Waves of Systems Thinking. Journal of Systems Thinking, 3, 1-51. https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.000051

This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of as significant paradigmatic time periods in the history of the field. It then int... Read More about The Four Waves of Systems Thinking.

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.

Organised crime - the cyber dimension (2023)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2023). Organised crime - the cyber dimension. In B. Rider (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (177-194). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201369.00014

This chapter reviews a few critical technological developments and reflects both on their trajectory and on the opportunities they harbour for novel forms of cyber-enabled criminality. While the future of organised crime remains forever out of grasp,... Read More about Organised crime - the cyber dimension.

Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana (2023)
Journal Article
Helfgott, A., Midgley, G., Chaudhury, A., Vervoort, J., Sova, C., & Ryan, A. (2023). Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana. European journal of operational research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.01.045

Adaptation to climate change is impacted by a range of interrelated processes operating from local to global levels. There are often significant disconnects between different people's perceptions of responsibilities, capabilities and motivations, and... Read More about Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana.

Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Şenalp, Ö., & Midgley, G. (2023). Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda. Systems research and behavioral science, 40(2), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2923

In this paper, we propose a research agenda to support the recovery of Alexander Bogdanov's philosophical and systemic thinking that culminated in his magnum opus, Tektology. Our main reason for doing so is to re-address enduring questions about the... Read More about Alexander Bogdanov and the question of unity: An emerging research agenda.

Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change (2022)
Journal Article
Lilley, R., Whitehead, M., & Midgley, G. (2022). Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(2), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v2i2.3857

This paper explores the impacts of the Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme. Combining mindfulness with behavioural insights instruction, the authors have developed the MBBI programme through a series of iterati... Read More about Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change.

Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future (2022)
Journal Article
Park, A., Wilson, M., Robson, K., Demetis, D., & Kietzmann, J. (2022). Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future. Business Horizons, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.10.005

This article introduces the next major generational evolution of the web: Web3. We review the fundamental evolution of the internet and the web over the past three decades, including a brief presentation of the publications in Business Horizons that... Read More about Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future.

Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems (2022)
Thesis
Sydelko, P. J. Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems. (Thesis). University of Hull. 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.