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

# Thinking Holistically: The Implicit Use of DSRP and Systems Thinking Models

Gibson, 2024, Doctoral paper by Rachel Shaver Gibson, posted by Villages in Partnership — Business & Management

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Applies the DSRP model (Cabrera & Cabrera 2018) as an analytic lens to map how a poverty-focused nonprofit in Malawi makes decisions, working each of the four rules through interview evidence and DSRP maps.

## What they found (results)

The organization already applies the four patterns implicitly, without naming them — which the paper offers as evidence that the rules operate as universal patterns rather than as a methodology someone adopts.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A doctoral paper posted by Villages in Partnership, a nonprofit working on poverty reduction in Malawi, examining its own decision-making through DSRP.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://villagesinpartnership.org/thinking-holistically-the-implicit-use-of-dsrp-and-systems-thinking-models-by-rachel-gibson/)