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Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems

Journal of Systems Thinking
“Wicked problems” are often thought of as a situation that should not exist or an inescapable consequence of complex systems. This paper argues for a paradigm shift in instead understanding wicked problems as feedback from the system (i.e., the real world), resulting from a misalignment between our mental model of the system and the system itself ...
Natasha Steinhall, Rebecca McPettit, James Bond, Michelle Parks, Mahwish Khan, Daniel Sharfarz, Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera   +7 more
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Wicked problems or wicked people? Reconceptualising institutional abuse [PDF]

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2012
AbstractInstitutional abuse is a global issue, sometimes ascribed to the behaviour of a few wicked people. It persists despite regulatory measures, interventions from enforcement and protection agencies, organisational policies and procedures. Therefore, the accurate recognition and early detection of abuse and taking corresponding steps to deal with ...
Burns, Diane, Hyde (Manchester), Paula, Killett, Anne   +2 more
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
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How education can help shape a new story in a post-pandemic world.

Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
Globally, nations are grappling with massive social and economic disruptions and the disparities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The world is in the middle of a wicked problem—one so complex that it is difficult to find a solution.
Susan Drake, Joanne Reid
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The wicked problem of humanitarian logistics and disaster relief aid [PDF]

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2011
Purpose – – Some 40 years ago Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber published a seminal paper in which they discussed the “wicked problems” facing those who sought to develop solutions to urban planning challenges.
Peter Tatham, Luke Houghton
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
wiley   +1 more source

Exposing the myth: object-relational impedance mismatch is a wicked problem [PDF]

, 2015
Addressing a problem of software integration is a fact of life for those involved in software development. The popularity of both object and relational technologies means that they will inevitably be used together.
Bowers, David, Ireland, Christopher
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Wicked but worth it: student perspectives on socio-hydrology [PDF]

, 2016
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Bach, Barabási, Blair, Cai, Carey, Churchman, Conklin, Duflo, Elshafei, Garcia, Gober, Grames, Hawkins, Kumar, Lane, Liu, Liu, Marston, Milly, Montanari, Montanari, Ostrom, Ostrom, Ostrom, Pande, Pataki, Poteete, Rajaram, Rittel, Savenije, Schlüter, Sivakumar, Sivapalan, Thompson, Troy, Viglione, Vogel   +36 more
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Management in the Arctic Offshore: Wicked Problems Require New Paradigms [PDF]

, 2011
Recent project-management literature and high-profile disasters—the financial crisis, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima nuclear accident—illustrate the flaws of traditional risk models for complex projects.
Haley, Sharman, Kaempf, Mandy
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