- Strategic Management
- Problem Structuring
- Managerial and Organisational Cognition
- Multi-Organisational Collaboration
- Operational Research
- Research Method
- Project Management
Eden, C., 1977. Modelling the influence of decision makers on the future, Futures 9 (4) 272-284.
Sims, D. and Eden, C., 1984. Futures Research - Working with Management Teams, LongRangePlanning 17 51-59.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 1988. Action Oriented Strategic Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society 39 (889-899.
Eden, C., 1989. Strategic Options Development and Analysis - SODA. In Rosenhead, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World, Wiley,London . pp. 21-42.
Eden, C., 1990. Strategic Thinking with Computers, International Journal of Strategic Management 23 35-43.
Raimond, P. and Eden, C., 1990. Making Strategy Work, International Journal of Strategic Management 23 (5) 97-105.
Eden, C., 1992. Strategy Development as a Social Process, Journal of Management Studies 29 799-811.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 1992. Strategy Development and Implementation - the role of a Group Decision Support System. In Kinney, S., Bostrom, R. P., and Watson, R. (Eds.). Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour, Van Nostrand and Reinhold, New York. pp. 325-342.
Eden C. and Cropper S., 1992. Coherence and Balance in Strategies for the Management of Public Services: two confidence tests for strategy development, review and renewal, Public Money and Management 12 43-52.
Eden, C., 1993. Futures Research - Working with Management Teams. In Bryson, J. M. (Eds.). Strategic Planning for Public Service and Non-Profit Organizations, Pergamon, London.
Eden, C., 1993. Strategy Development and Implementation - Cognitive Mapping for Group Support. In Hendry, J., Johnson, G., and Newton, J. (Eds.). Strategic Thinking: Leadership and the Management of Change, Wiley,London.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 1993. Evaluating Strategy: Its Role within the Context of Strategic Control, Journal of the Operational Research Society 44 (853-865.
Eden, C. and van der Heijden, K., 1995. Detecting Emergent Strategy. In Thomas, H., O'Neal, D., and Kelly, J. (Eds.). Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation, Wiley, New York.
Brightman, J, Eden, C, Van der Heijden, K, and Langford, D, 1996. The development of an industry futures bulletin. In Langford, D and Retik, A (Eds.). The organisation and management of construction, shaping theory and practice, E&FN Spon, London. pp. 129-139.
Bryson, J. M., Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Finn, C., 1996. Critical Incidents and Emergent Issues in the Management of Large Scale Change Effects. In Kettl, D. and Brinton, H. (Eds.). The State of Public Management, John Hopkins Press, BaltimoreM.D. pp. 267-285.
Eden, C, 1996. The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop - theNorthern Ireland case. In Huxham, C (Eds.). Creating collaborative advantage, Sage, London.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 1997. Contrasting GDSSs and GSSs in the Context of Strategic Change: Implications for Facilitation, Journal of Decision Systems 6 221-250.
Brightman, J., Eden, C., van der Heijden, K., and Langford, D., 1997. An application of IT to strategy formulation in Construction firms. In Retik, A. and Langford, D. (Eds.). Computer Integrated Planning and Design for Construction, Blackwell, Oxford.
Eden, C and Ackermann, F, 1998. Making Strategy: the journey of strategic management, Sage, London.
Sims, D. and Eden, C., 1999. Futures Research -Working with Management Teams. In Bryson, J. M. (Eds.). Strategic Management in Public and Voluntary Services: A Reader, Pergamon, Oxford. pp. 173-186.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2000. Mapping distinctive competencies: a systemic approach, Journal of the Operational Research Society 51 12-20.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2001. Contrasting Single User and Networked Group Decision Support Systems for Strategy Making, Group Decision and Negotiation 10 (1) 47-66.
Eden, C., 2001. Coping with Strategic Risk. In Financial Times Management Handbook, Financial Times, 286-291.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2001. Group Decision and Negotiation in Strategy Making, Group Decision and Negotiation 10 (2) 119-140.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2001. A Mapping Framework for Strategy Making. In Huff, A. and Jenkins, M. (Eds.). Mapping Strategy , Wiley, London. pp. 173-195.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2002. Powerful and Interested Stakeholders Matter: Their Identification and Management, Academy of Managementconference, Seattle
Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Brown,I., 2004. The Practice of Making Strategy, Sage, London.
Bryson, J. M., Fran Ackermann, F., and Eden, C. 2004. Contributions of 'Planning Under Pressure'. Planning Theory, 3: 201-210.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F. 2005. Discovering Core Competences: Working with Patterns of Distinctive Competences and Competences. to be presented to the British Academy of Management conference , Oxford
Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and with Brown, I. 2005. The Practice of Making Strategy. London: Sage
Bryson, J., Ackermann, F., and Eden, C. 2005. Identifying and Making Use of Distinctive Competencies in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Proceedings of theAcademy of Management Conference, Hawaii
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F. 2005. Discovering Core Competences: Working with Patterns of Distinctive Competences and Competences. Proceedings of the British Academy of Management conference
Eden, C. and Sims, D., 1979. On the nature of problems in consulting practice, Omega 7 119-127.
Eden, C. and Jones, S., 1980. Publish or Perish - a case study, Journal of the Operational Research Society 31 131-139.
Eden, C., Jones S., Sims D., and Smithin, T. , 1981. The intersubjectivity of issues and issues of intersubjectivity, Journal of Management Studies 18 37-47.
Eden, C. and Sims, D., 1981. Subjectivity in Problem Identification, Interfaces 11 (1)
Sims, D., Eden, C., and Jones, S., 1981. Facilitating Problem Definition in Teams, European Journal of Operational Research 6 (4) 360-366.
Eden, C., 1985. Perish the Thought, Journal of the Operational Research Society 36 809-819.
Eden, C., 1987. Problem Solving or Problem Finishing? In Jackson, M. C. Keys P. (Eds.). New Directions in Management Science, Gower, Hants. pp. 97-107.
Eden, C, 1989. Operational Research as Negotiation. In Jackson, M. C., Keys, P., and Cropper, S. A. (Eds.). Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum Press, NY,
Eden, C., 1989. Strategic Options Development and Analysis - SODA. In Rosenhead, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World, Wiley,London . pp. 21-42.
Eden, C., 1990. Managing the Environment as a Means to Managing Complexity. In Eden, C. and Radford, J. (Eds.). Tackling Strategic Problems: the role of group decision support, Sage, London.
Eden, C., 1990. The Unfolding Nature of Group Decision Support. In Eden, C. and Radford, J. (Eds.). Tackling Strategic Problems: the role of group decision support, Sage, London. pp. 48-52.
Eden, C. and Radford, J. Editors, 1990. Tackling Strategic Problems: the role of group decision support, Sage, London.
Eden, C., Bennett, P. G., Clark, P., and Stringer, J., 1993. Problem Formulation and Negotiation in Multi-Organisational Contexts, Journal of the Operational Research Society 44 625-628.
Eden, C., 1994. Problem Construction and the Influence of OR. In Keys, P. (Eds.). Understanding the Process of Operational Research, Wiley,London.
Eden, C., Jones, S., and Sims, D., 1994. Misunderstandings: understanding problems and the problems of misunderstanding. In Armson, R. and Paton, R. (Eds.). Organizations: cases, issues, concepts, Paul Chapman Publishing, London. pp.
Eden, C, 1998. Cognitive mapping and problem structuring for system dynamics model building. In Dyson, R G and O'Brien, F (Eds.). Strategic development: methods and models, Wiley, Chichester . pp. 227-242.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2001. SODA - Journey Making and Mapping in Practice. In Rosenhead, J. and Mingers, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World Revisited, Wiley, London.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2001. SODA - The Principles. In Rosenhead, J. and Mingers, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World Revisited, Wiley, London. pp. 21-42.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2004. Using Causal mapping: individual and group; traditional and new. In Pidd, M. (Eds.). Title not yet known, Wiley,Chichester . pp.
Eden, C., 2004. Analyzing Cognitive Maps to Help Structure Issues or Problems, European Journal of Operational Research forthcoming
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2004. Use of 'soft-OR' models by clients - what do they want from them? In Pidd, M. (Eds.). Not yet known, Wiley, Chichester.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F. 2005. Where Next for Problem Structuring Methods. Journal of the Operational Research Society, forthcoming:
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C. 2004. Using Causal mapping: individual and group; traditional and new. In Pidd, M. (Eds.), Systems Modelling: Theory and Practice: Chichester: Wiley.
Bryson, J., Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Finn, C. 2004. Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results. Chichester: Wiley.
Eden, C. 2004. Analyzing Cognitive Maps to Help Structure Issues or Problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 159: 673-686.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C. 2005. Using Causal Mapping to Support Information Systems Development: Some Considerations. In Narayanan, V. K. and Armstrong, D. (Eds.), Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology: 263-283. PA, USA: Idea Group Inc.
Eden, C., 1978. Computer Assisted Policy Analysis: contributions from Germany, Policy Sciences 9 345-360.
Eden, C., Jones, S., and Sims, D., 1979. Thinking in Organisations, Macmillan,London.
Eden, C., Jones, S., Sims, D., and Gunton, H., 1979. Images into Models: the Subjective World of the Policy Maker, Futures 11 (1) 56-62.
Eden, C., 1980. Modeling Cognition in Complex Decision Problems, Journal of Interdisciplinary Modeling and Simulation 3 (2) 119-144.
Eden, C., Smithin, T., and Wiltshire, J., 1980. Cognition Simulation and Learning, Journal of Experiential Learning 2 (1-13.
Jones, S. and Eden, C., 1981. Modelling in marketing: explicating subjective knowledge, European Journal of Marketing 15 (7) 3-11.
Eden, C., Jones, S., and Sims, D., 1983. Messing About in Problems, Pergamon,Oxford.
Eden, C. and Jones, S., 1984. Using Repertory Grids for Problem Construction, Journal of the Operational Research Society 35 779-790.
Eden C., Williams H., and Smithin, T., 1986. Synthetic Wisdom: the design of a mixed mode modelling system for organizational decision making, Journal of the Operational Research Society 37 233-241.
Eden, C., 1987. Problem Solving or Problem Finishing? In Jackson, M. C. Keys P. (Eds.). New Directions in Management Science, Gower, Hants. pp. 97-107.
Eden, C., 1988. Cognitive Mapping: a review, European Journal of Operational Research 36 1-13.
Eden, C., 1992. On the Nature of Cognitive Maps, Journal of Management Studies 29 261-265.
Eden, C., Ackermann, F., and Cropper, S., 1992. The Analysis of Cause Maps, Journal of Management Studies 29 309-324.
Eden, C., 1993. Strategy Development and Implementation - Cognitive Mapping for Group Support. In Hendry, J., Johnson, G., and Newton, J. (Eds.). Strategic Thinking: Leadership and the Management of Change, Wiley,London.
Eden, C., 1994. Cognitive mapping and problem structuring for system dynamics model building, System Dynamics Review 10 257-276.
Eden, C., Jones, S., and Sims, D., 1994. Misunderstandings: understanding problems and the problems of misunderstanding. In Armson, R. and Paton, R. (Eds.). Organizations: cases, issues, concepts, Paul Chapman Publishing, London. pp.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 1998. Analysing and Comparing Idiographic Causal Maps. In Eden, C. and Spender, J-C (Eds.). Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Sage, London. pp. 192-209.
Eden, C. and Spender, J. C., 1998. Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Sage,London.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2003. Cognitive Mapping for Policy Analysis in the Public Sector, European Journal of Operational Research forthcoming
Eden, C., 2004. Analyzing Cognitive Maps to Help Structure Issues or Problems, European Journal of Operational Research forthcoming
Bryson, J., Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Finn, C. 2004. Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results. Chichester: Wiley.
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Eden, C, 1996. The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop - theNorthern Ireland case. In Huxham, C (Eds.). Creating collaborative advantage, Sage, London.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 2001. The Negotiation of Purpose in Multi-Organizational Collaborative Groups, Journal of Management Studies 38 (3) 351-369.
Operational Research
Eden, C., 1973. The Contribution of the Designer in the Custom Build Engineering Company, Journal of the Institution of Production Engineers 52 (9) 309-312.
Eden, C., 1973. A Maximum Profit Product to Please the Customer, Management Decision 11 (1) 57-63.
Eden, C., 1976. Decision Models, System Design and Dynamic Goal Systems, Journal of Systems Engineering 4 (2) 107-116.
Eden, C. and Harris, J., 1976. Management Decision and Decision Analysis, Macmillan,London.
Eden, C., 1978. Operational Research and Organizational Development, Human Relations 31 (8) 657-752.
Eden, C. and Jones, S., 1980. Publish or Perish - a case study, Journal of the Operational Research Society 31 131-139.
Sims, D., Eden, C., and Jones, S., 1981. Facilitating Problem Definition in Teams, European Journal of Operational Research 6 (4) 360-366.
Eden, C, 1989. Operational Research as Negotiation. In Jackson, M. C., Keys, P., and Cropper, S. A. (Eds.). Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum Press, NY,
Eden, C., 1990. Mixing Methods. In Eden, C. and Radford, J. (Eds.). Tackling Strategic problems: The Role of Group Decision Support, Sage,London. pp. 90-91.
Eden, C. and Radford, J. Editors, 1990. Tackling Strategic Problems: the role of group decision support, Sage, London.
Eden, C., 1993. From the Playpen to the Bombsite: the changing nature of Management Science, Omega 21 139-154.
Eden, C., Bennett, P. G., Clark, P., and Stringer, J., 1993. Problem Formulation and Negotiation in Multi-Organisational Contexts, Journal of the Operational Research Society 44 625-628.
Eden, C., 1994. Cognitive mapping and problem structuring for system dynamics model building, System Dynamics Review 10 257-276.
Eden, C., 1994. Problem Construction and the Influence of OR. In Keys, P. (Eds.). Understanding the Process of Operational Research, Wiley,London.
Bennett, P. G., Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Williams, T. M., 1997. Analysing litigation and negotiation: using a combined methodology. In Mingers, J. and Gill, A. (Eds.). Multimethodology: the theory and practice of combining management science methodologies, Wiley, Chichester .
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2001. SODA - Journey Making and Mapping in Practice. In Rosenhead, J. and Mingers, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World Revisited, Wiley, London.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2001. SODA - The Principles. In Rosenhead, J. and Mingers, J. (Eds.). Rational Analysis in a Problematic World Revisited, Wiley, London. pp. 21-42.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 2003. Cognitive Mapping for Policy Analysis in the Public Sector, European Journal of Operational Research forthcoming
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2004. Using Causal mapping: individual and group; traditional and new. In Pidd, M. (Eds.). Title not yet known, Wiley,Chichester .
Bryson, J. M., Fran Ackermann, F., and Eden, C. 2004. Contributions of 'Planning Under Pressure'. Planning Theory, 3: 201-210.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F. 2004. Use of 'soft-OR' models by clients - what do they want from them? In Pidd, M. (Eds.), Systems Modelling: Theory and Practice: Chichester: Wiley.
Howick, S. and Eden, C. 2004. Organizational Learning and Litigation Analysis in Project Management: On the Nature of Discontinuities in System Dynamics Modelling of Disrupted Projects. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55: 598-605.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 1988. Action Oriented Strategic Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society 39 (889-899.
Cropper, S., Eden, C., and Ackermann, F., 1990. Keeping Sense of Accounts Using Computer-Based Cognitive Maps, Social Science Computer Review 8 345-366.
Eden, C., Ackermann, F., and Cropper, S., 1992. The Analysis of Cause Maps, Journal of Management Studies 29 309-324.
Eden, C., 1995. On Evaluating the Performance of 'Wide-Band' GDSS's, European Journal of Operational Research 81 302-311.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 1996. Action Research for Management Research, British Journal of Management 7 (1) 75-86.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 1996. Action Research for the Study of Organizations. In Clegg, S., Hardy, C., and Nord, W. (Eds.). Handbook of Organization Studies, Sage, Beverly Hills.
Eden, C. and Ackermann, F., 1998. Analysing and Comparing Idiographic Causal Maps. In Eden, C. and Spender, J-C (Eds.). Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Sage, London. pp. 192-209.
Eden, C., 2000. On evaluating the performance of GSS: furthering the debate, European Journal of Operational Research 120 218-222.
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C., 2001. Using Causal Mapping with computer based Group Support System technology for eliciting an understanding of failure in complex projects: some implications for organizational research,Academy of Management Conference, Washington
Eden, C. and Huxham, C., 2002. Action Research. In Partington, D. Editor (Eds.). Essential Skills for Management Research, Sage, London. pp. 254-272.
Eden, C. and Huxham, C. 2006. Researching Organizations Using Action Research. In Nord, W. (Eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies: Beverly Hills: Sage
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C. 2006. Using Causal Mapping with Group Support Systems to elicit an understanding of failure in complex projects: some implications for organizational research. Group Decision and Negotiation. forthcoming.
Eden, C., 1973. A Maximum Profit Product to Please the Customer, Management Decision 11 (1) 57-63.
Eden, C., 1973. Tackling project profitability and cost estimating, Journal of theInstituteofCostand Management Accountants 51 (10) 449-452.
Williams, T. M., Eden, C., and Ackermann, F. , 1995. The Vicious Circles of Parallelism, International Journal of Project Management 13 151-155.
Williams, T. M., Eden, C., Ackermann, F., and Tait, A., 1995. The Effects of Design Changes and Delays on Project Costs, Journal of the Operational Research Society 46 (809-818.
Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Williams, T., 1997. Modeling for Litigation: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Interfaces 27 (2) 48-65.
Eden, C., Williams, T., and Ackermann, F., 1998. Dismantling the Learning Curve: the role of disruptions on the planning of development projects, International Journal of Project Management 16 (3) 131-138.
Eden, C., Williams, T., Ackermann, F., and Howick, S., 1999. On the nature of disruption and delay (D&D). In K.A.Artto, K. Kahkonen and K. Koskinen (Eds.). Managing Business by Projects, Helsinki. pp. 935-955.
Eden, C, Williams, T M, Ackermann, F, and Howick, S, 2000. On the nature of disruption and delay, Journal of the Operational Research Society 51 291-300.
Howick, S. and Eden, C., 2001. The Impact of Disruption and Delay when Compressing Large Projects: Going for Incentives?, Journal of the Operational Research Society 52 (1) 26-34.
Rae, T. and Eden, C., 2002. On Project Success and Failure in Major Engineering Projects, presented to European Academy of Management conference April
Williams, T., Ackermann, F., and Eden, C., 2003. Structuring a Delay and Disruption claim: an application of cause-mapping and System Dynamics, European Journal of Operational Research 148 (1) 192-204.
Eden, C., Ackermann, F., and Williams, T. 2004. The Amoebic Growth of Project Costs. Project Management Journal, forthcoming:
Howick, S. and Eden, C. 2004. Organizational Learning and Litigation Analysis in Project Management: On the Nature of Discontinuities in System Dynamics Modelling of Disrupted Projects. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55: 598-605.
Eden, C., Williams, T., and Ackermann, F. 2004. Analysing Project Cost Overruns: Comparing the Measured Mile Analysis and System Dynamics Modelling. International Journal of Project Management, 23: 135-139.
Williams, T. M., Ackermann, F., Eden, C., and Howick, S. 2004. Learning from Project Failure. In Love, P., Irani, Z., and Fong, P. (Eds.), Management of Knowledge in Project Environments: 219-236. Oxord: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.
Howick, S. and Eden, C. 2004. Learning in Disrupted Projects: On the Nature of Corporate and Personal Learning. Submitted to the International Journal of Production Research
Howick, S. and Eden, C. 2004. Organizational Learning and Litigation Analysis in Project Management: On the Nature of Discontinuities in System Dynamics Modelling of Disrupted Projects. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55: 598-605.
