An Overview of the Contribution of Systems Thinking Within Management and Marketing

Bruni, Renato; Carrubbo, Luca; Cavacece, Ylenia; Sarno, Debora

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61967-5_13

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“…Donovan et al [98], who evaluated the relationship between leadership and ST, found the existence of such relationships and emphasized the significance of ST across different leadership levels. In another study, Bruni et al [99] reviewed the existing literature related to the importance of ST in management and marketing. In general, ST has been implemented in different management systems, including project management, risk management, quality management, medicine management, and innovation management [6], [58], [100]- [104].…”

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Investigating the influence of demographics and personality types on practitioners' level of systems thinking skills

Nagahi¹,

Hossain²,

Amrani³

et al. 2022

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Although the application of systems thinking (ST) has become essential for practitioners when dealing with turbulent and complex environments, there are limited studies available in the current literature that investigate how the ST skills of practitioners vary with regard to demographic factors and personality types (PTs). To address this gap, this article uses a structural equation modeling approach to explore the relationship be-tween practitioners’ ST skills, PT, and a set of demographic factors. The demographic factors included in the study are education level, the field of the highest degree, organizational ownership structure, job experience, and current occupation type. A total of 99 engineering managers, 104 systems engineers (SEs), and 55 practitioners with other occupations participated in this article. Results showed that the education level, the field of the highest degree, PT, organizational ownership structure, and current job experience of practitioners influenced their level of ST skills. Additionally, the current occupation type of practitioners partially affects their level of ST skills. An in-depth analysis was also conducted using multiple group analysis to show how seven ST skills of the practitioners vary across their level of education. Taken together, the findings of the study suggest that PT and a set of demographic factors influence the overall ST skill of the practitioners.

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Section: E Contribution and Implication Of Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the influence of demographics and personality types on practitioners' level of systems thinking skills

Nagahi¹,

Hossain²,

Amrani³

et al. 2022

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“…Maani and Maharaj [6] support the same notion by agreeing that implementing reductionist methods to solve complex problems is insufficient to interpret systems involving high levels of complexity. It has been proven through the literature and practice that systems thinking can help deal with the increasing complexity of businesses in particular [27,28] and the world in general [6,29]. There is a growing emphasis on systems thinking in almost all fields, including education [30][31][32], engineering [33,34], military [35,36], agriculture [37][38][39], weather [40,41], and public health [42][43][44].…”

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An Assessment of Individuals’ Systems Thinking Skills via Immersive Virtual Reality Complex System Scenarios

Dayarathna

Karam

Jaradat

et al. 2021

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This study utilized the application of authentic Virtual Reality (VR) to replicate the real-world complex system scenarios of a large retail supply chain. The proposed VR scenarios were developed based on an established systems thinking instrument that consists of seven dimensions: level of complexity, independence, interaction, change, uncertainty, systems’ worldview, and flexibility. However, in this study, we only developed the VR scenarios for the first dimension, level of complexity, to assess an individual’s Systems Thinking Skills (STS) when he or she engages in a turbulent virtual environment. The main objective of this study was to compare a student’s STS when using traditional ST instruments versus VR scenarios for the complexity dimension. The secondary aim was to investigate the efficacy of VR scenarios utilizing three measurements: Simulation Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ), System Usability Scale (SUS), and Presence Questionnaire (PQ). In addition to the three measures, NASA TLX assessment was also performed to assess the perceived workload with regards to performing the tasks in VR scenarios. The results show students’ preferences in the VR scenarios are not significantly different from their responses obtained using the traditional systems skills instrument. The efficacy measures confirmed that the developed VR scenarios are user friendly and lie in an acceptable region for users. Finally, the overall NASA TLX score suggests that users require 36% perceived work effort to perform the activities in VR scenarios.

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“…Finally, systems thinking could lead a company to change its management process. On this subject, Bruni et al [102] explain the contribution of systems thinking within marketing and management in companies.…”

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Circular Economy in China: Translating Principles into Practice

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The concept of circular economy (CE) has recently gained momentum in the political, scientific, and economic debate, especially in China and Europe. As a result, organizations and scholars have started to establish different sets of principles for its adoption. For this reason, it is important to identify and assess the differences and similarities among existing sets of CE principles, and how organizations and individuals understand and translate them into practice. In this paper, we firstly present a brief review and analysis of the coherence among six existing sets of principles. Our analysis finds that, despite the mixed degree of coherence, all sets describe the necessity to implement CE principles at all levels of a company. We then present the results of an in-depth qualitative survey that investigates how 19 key informants representing small, medium, and multinational companies based in China understand and carry out the CE principles laid out by the BSI standard BS 8001:2017; how these principles can transform the culture and processes of these companies; and what are the opportunities and threats that such transformation can bring. Results describe a good awareness and knowledge of the CE principles and an optimistic outlook concerning their adoption. At the same time, numerous barriers and threats that the implementation of these principles might entail are presented. Overall, respondents confirm the complexity of implementing the principles of the CE in an integrated and consistent way in the management and strategies of Chinese companies and highlight the challenges that might arise during their implementation.

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An Overview of the Contribution of Systems Thinking Within Management and Marketing

Cited by 17 publications

References 62 publications

Investigating the influence of demographics and personality types on practitioners' level of systems thinking skills

Investigating the influence of demographics and personality types on practitioners' level of systems thinking skills

An Assessment of Individuals’ Systems Thinking Skills via Immersive Virtual Reality Complex System Scenarios

Circular Economy in China: Translating Principles into Practice

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