Outputs (4)

Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pokorna, K., Weaver, M., & Chipulu, M. (2025, May). Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy. Presented at U!REKA Connects 2025, Helsinki, Finland

Systems thinking is essential for addressing sustainability challenges and promoting sustainable development. While management approaches like Doughnut Economics and Circular Economy are rooted in systems thinking, research in this area is limited. S... Read More about Systems Thinking and the Circular Economy.

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness (2025)
Journal Article
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., Tan, H., & Pokorna, K. (online). Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness. Journal of the Operational Research Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2486698

The grand challenges encapsulated in the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030, are complex, messy and interconnected. Fulfilling these goals necessitates a shift in mindset from ego-to-ecosystems awareness and an imperati... Read More about Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Shifting to a Higher Level of Systems Consciousness.

Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M. (2022, September). Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis. Presented at OR64: OR For a Better World Together, University of Warwick

Each year we pose a “grand challenge” to provide an opportunity to identify how OR can be used to help solve real-world issues in our host city region, the UK and beyond. We have not been short of challenges in the past, be it the climate emergency,... Read More about Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis.

B Corps – do network ties matter? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, M., Tan, H., & Weaver, M. (2022, August). B Corps – do network ties matter?. Paper presented at British Academy of Management 2022 Conference, University of Manchester

When a director sits on the boards of directors of multiple firms, linkages are established between these firms which are referred to as director interlocks. Resource dependency theory argues that firms benefit from these interlocks as they have acce... Read More about B Corps – do network ties matter?.