Consideration of Ethics in Systemic Thinking

Tuan, Nien-Tsu; Shaw, Corrinne

doi:10.1007/s11213-015-9352-5

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“…In the literature, different scholars attempted to demonstrate the mutual inclusiveness of "systems thinking" and other related terms such as big-picture thinking [74][75][76][77], holistic thinking [78][79][80][81], multidimensional thinking [82][83][84][85] and systemic thinking [86][87][88][89]. A thorough review of the literature shows that researchers focused on the identification of systemic approaches to deal with complex system problems.…”

Section: Individual Capacity For Systems Thinkingmentioning

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Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Hossain

Dayarathna

Nagahi

et al. 2020

Systems

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Systems thinking (ST) is an interdisciplinary domain that offers different ways to better understand the behavior and structure of a complex system. Over the past decades, several publications can be identified in academic literature, focusing on different aspects of systems thinking. However, two critical questions are not properly addressed in the extant body of ST literature: (i) How to conduct the content analysis exclusively to derive the prominent statistics (i.e., influential journals, authors, affiliated organizations and countries) pertaining to the domain of ST? (ii) How to get better insights regarding the current and emerging trends that may evolve over time based on the existing body of ST literature? To address these gaps, the aim of this research study is to provide a comprehensive insight into the domain of systems thinking through bibliometric and network analysis. Beginning with over 6000 accumulated publications, the analysis narrowed down to 626 prominent articles with proven influence published over the past three decades. Leveraging rigorous bibliometric tools analysis, this research unveils the influential authors, leading journals and top contributing organizations and countries germane to the domain of systems thinking. In addition, citation, co-citation and page rank analysis used to rank top influential articles in the area of systems thinking. Finally, with the aid of the network analysis, key clusters in the existing literature are identified based on the research areas of systems thinking. The findings of this research will serve as a bluebook for practitioners and scholars to conduct future research within systems thinking context.

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Section: Individual Capacity For Systems Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Hossain

Dayarathna

Nagahi

et al. 2020

Systems

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“…In this paper, 'systemic' means that knowledge is subjective while embracing the invariant features in systems, such as asymmetry, nonlinearity, and feedback loops (Flood 2010;Tuan 2018). Furthermore, systemic thinking embraces democracy, learning, and upholding participatory design (Tuan 2018;Tuan and Shaw 2016). These features embrace diversity and help to reach consensus in a design.…”

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“…The systemic approaches embrace subjective knowledge and participatory learning. Furthermore, in a systemic world, manifold nonlinear and asymmetric relationships could exist between system elements (Flood 2010;Tuan 2018;Tuan and Shaw 2016). Instead of probing into the relationship of 'more important', the proposed methodology argues for scrutinizing the relationship of 'helping to achieve', which is also amenable to transitive inference (Warfield and Cárdenas 1994).…”

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The Other Side of Success Factors—A Systemic Methodology for Exploring Critical Success Factors

Tuan

2021

Syst Pract Action Res

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This paper puts forward a systemic methodology to explore Critical Success Factors (CSFs). The common idea about ranking CSFs is to explore the relationship of 'more important', i.e. directly assessing whether success factor A is more important than factor B. This idea is prominent in the prevailing approaches, e.g. the qualitative inquiry, quantitative analysis, and multi-criteria decision making. Exploring CSFs from a different lens, this paper argues for systemic approaches, reckoning that manifold interrelationships could exist between system elements. Considering the manifold interrelationships, the proposed methodology contends that two opposite interrelationships could exist between CSFs-'helping to achieve' and 'inhibiting to achieve'. The first step of assessing CSFs is to construct a digraph in a participatory way, showing the transitive 'helping to achieve' relationship between CSFs and obtain the 'helping to achieve' score for each element. The second step is to examine the inhibiting relationship through a pairwise comparison to obtain the 'inhibiting to achieve' score for each element. The third step is to combine the 'helping to achieve score' with 'inhibiting to achieve' score to obtain the net score for each success factor. This output aims to provide the relevant stakeholders with a more comprehensive spectrum in assessing CSFs to develop their organizations well.

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“…Rooted in systems thinking, SPT promotes a comprehensive understanding of ethical matters that are compatible with virtue ethics, deontology, and utilitarianism. This compatibility stems from systems thinking embracing “the virtue of toleration of … different vantage points,” “echoes deontological ethics… [because the] autonomous nature of systemic thinking inspires people to determine the maxims of ethical actions,” and “promotes good for the people in an equitable fashion” (Tuan & Shaw, 2016, p. 56).…”

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Combining ethics and compliance: A systems psychodynamic inquiry into praxis and outcomes

Klerk

2021

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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The role of a senior manager responsible for managing ethics and compliance became a standard appointment globally in many larger organisations in an attempt to curb compliance failures (Christina & Fort, 2020). This role emerged in the 1980s after compliance failures resulted in legislative prescriptions to create and fill it. Today, in some organisations, ethics and compliance programmes are run separately, while most organisations tend to coalesce them conceptually and structurally (Compliance & Ethics Leadership Council [CELC], 2013;Majluf & Navarrete, 2017). However, the desirability to combine ethics and compliance has been debated for decades (Majluf & Navarrete, 2017), and remains a contested issue (Constantinescu, 2018;Sharpe, 2019).Ethics and compliance are not incompatible adversaries (Constantinescu, 2018;Paine, 1994). Nonetheless, research consistently indicates that combining ethics and compliance tends to have adverse consequences for ethics (Pérezts & Picard, 2015;Treviño et al., 2014). This raises the question: Why does the combination of ethics and compliance oversight have an unanticipated adverse effect on ethics and yet remain popular? Psychoanalysis-based approaches are increasingly called for as a theoretical framework for studying complex phenomena in behavioural ethics research (Islam, 2020). Systems psychodynamic theory is especially useful to uncover perplexing dynamics in organisational systems (Handy & Rowlands, 2017). By drawing on systems psychodynamic theory, this study enquired into unconscious complexities and drivers that may contribute to the phenomenon of adverse consequences when combining ethics and compliance while the praxis remains attractive.

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Consideration of Ethics in Systemic Thinking

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

The Other Side of Success Factors—A Systemic Methodology for Exploring Critical Success Factors

Combining ethics and compliance: A systems psychodynamic inquiry into praxis and outcomes

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