Aims

The Journal of Behavioral Dynamics and Systemic Change (JBDESC) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to the study of how individual and collective behaviour interacts with, shapes, and is shaped by dynamic social, economic, organisational, and technical systems over time.

The journal focuses not on isolated behavioural patterns or static system properties, but on the processes through which behaviour and systems co-evolve. These include how actors adapt to changing conditions; how feedback, learning, and coordination emerge; how shocks, interventions, and uncertainty alter system trajectories; and how micro-level decisions accumulate into macro-level outcomes. JBDESC welcomes work that examines these processes through rigorous conceptual reasoning, empirical analysis, computational modelling, or a combination of these approaches.

JBDESC provides a scholarly forum for interdisciplinary research spanning behavioural science, economics, organisational studies, public policy, complex systems, computational social science, and applied systems analysis. Submissions may address how behaviour responds to incentives and constraints, how coordination and cooperation arise, how risks and disruptions propagate through systems, and how interventions generate both intended and unintended consequences.

The journal publishes research that contributes to a deeper understanding of dynamic change in complex environments and that offers analytical insight into how systems evolve, stabilise, or transform in response to behavioural and structural forces.

JBDESC is published quarterly by Acadlore and follows a structured peer-review process and standard editorial procedures to support consistency, transparency, and scholarly integrity.

Key features of JBDESC include:

• The journal focuses on dynamic processes of change, adaptation, and feedback, rather than on static descriptions of behaviour or systems.

• It emphasises the interaction between behaviour and system structure, examining how individual and collective actions influence system trajectories and how system properties, in turn, shape behaviour.

• It values work that connects theory, data, and modelling within a coherent analytical framework, with clear assumptions, transparent methods, and interpretable results.

• Contributions addressing policy, management, or intervention are considered where these are analytically grounded and empirically examined, rather than prescriptive or purely normative.

• The journal encourages comparative, cross-contextual, and cross-domain research that reveals how similar dynamics operate across different sectors, societies, and institutional settings.

• Editorial evaluation prioritises conceptual clarity, methodological rigour, and the substantive contribution of each manuscript to understanding dynamic change.

Scope

JBDESC welcomes original research articles, theoretical contributions, systematic reviews, and high-quality empirical or computational studies in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

Behavioural Dynamics

Research on how individual and collective behaviour evolves over time, responds to incentives and constraints, and adapts to changing environments. Topics include learning, expectation formation, decision heuristics, behavioural responses to risk and uncertainty, social influence, and behavioural change under repeated interaction.

System Dynamics and Feedback Processes

Studies of feedback loops, non-linear dynamics, path dependence, tipping points, and emergent phenomena in social, economic, organisational, and technical systems. This includes system dynamics modelling, agent-based modelling, and other approaches to understanding how micro-level interactions generate macro-level patterns.

Organisational and Institutional Change

Analyses of how organisations and institutions adapt, transform, or resist change, including studies of organisational learning, structural reconfiguration, coordination mechanisms, governance arrangements, and institutional evolution under technological, economic, or regulatory pressure.

Policy, Intervention, and System Response

Research on how policy measures, managerial interventions, and external shocks affect behaviour and system performance over time, including evaluation of intended and unintended effects, behavioural responses to regulation, and adaptive policy design.

Risk, Uncertainty, and Resilience

Studies of how systems and actors respond to uncertainty, volatility, crises, and disruption, including behavioural responses to risk, cascading effects, recovery processes, and the conditions under which systems become more resilient or fragile.

Social, Economic, and Technological Transitions

Research on large-scale transitions such as digitalisation, sustainability transitions, market restructuring, and demographic change, focusing on how behavioural adaptation and system reconfiguration jointly shape long-term outcomes.

Methods and Modelling Approaches

Methodological contributions related to dynamic analysis, including agent-based modelling, system dynamics, network analysis, longitudinal data analysis, experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and mixed-method approaches that integrate qualitative and quantitative insights.

Applied and Domain-Specific Studies

Empirical and applied research in specific domains such as urban systems, transportation, energy, public services, markets and finance, education, healthcare, and environmental systems, where behaviour–system interactions play a central role.