[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Comparison of Twelve Systems Theories Using a Systemic Framework

## Details

**Authors** Rasmussen

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** Journal of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, 69th Meeting (Birmingham, UK)

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Systems Science

**Reading level** technical

**Kind of engagement** scholarly

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## In authors' words

### What they found (results)

Classifies DSRP as a 'process-based' theory starting from core systems processes and expanding outward, and maps how it relates to Systems Processes Theory.

## Commentary

### In short

Places DSRP alongside eleven other contemporary systems theories and analyses its worldview, scope and process structure against a common comparative framework.

### Response

Places DSRP alongside eleven other contemporary systems theories and analyzes its worldview, scope and process structure against a common comparative framework, classifying it as a process-based theory that starts from core systems processes and expands outward.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**Added** 2026-09-10

**How to cite this** Rasmussen (2025). Comparison of Twelve Systems Theories Using a Systemic Framework. Journal of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, 69th Meeting (Birmingham, UK).