Marija Roglic

• PhD in Organization and Management Studies
• MBS School of Business

This chapter clarifies the meaning and role of systems mapping in supporting social innovators as they confront complex societal challenges. While recognized for its capacity to visually represent intricate relationships between interconnected elements, systems mapping remains underutilized in management and organization theory and practice. Moreov...

Local actors can defend public value by mobilizing resistance coalitions against threats from higher spatial scales. Drawing on existing scholarship on resistance movements and public value creation, this paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding how local actors can protect public value from threats of rescaling driven solely by heg...

This methodological brief offers comprehensive guidance on how to study the core objectives (the what) of the ENFASYS project, which focuses on facilitating transitions to resilient and sustainable agricultural systems. Purpose: The brief addresses the central question: How can ENFASYS support societal actors in understanding and addressing lock...

Cette étude analyse les mécanismes de prise de décision des Groupes d'Action Locale (GAL) dans le cadre du programme LEADER en France entre 2020 et 2024. En évaluant les procédures décisionnelles, les outils de sélection des projets et les interactions avec les porteurs de projets, la recherche met en évidence la nécessité pour LEADER d'adopter une...

This poster explores the critical role of systems mapping in the transition towards sustainable farming systems within the ENFASYS project. The ENFASYS project aims to stimulate a just and fair shift to sustainable farming by enhancing policies and business strategies that encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable production systems. Central to...

Societal actors across scales and geographies increasingly demand visual applications of systems thinking - the process of understanding and changing the reality of a system by considering its whole set of interdependencies - to address wicked problems affecting food and agriculture. Yet, despite the wide offer of systems mapping tools, there is st...

As source for this infographic, please refer to and cite the following: Dentoni, D., Cucchi, C., Roglic, M., Bender-Salazar, R., Lubberink, R. and Manyise, T. (2022). Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Change in Food and Agriculture. Bio-based and Applied Economics 11(4), 277-301.

Participation across fields and disciplines is necessary to tackle today's grand challenges effectively – as they demand substantive participation of numerous actors with diverging interests. Furthermore, the issue of participation is a concern of politicians, civil society actors, of managers who, daily, enact different forms of participation with...

This paper aims to present the results of the Erasmus + RUR’UP project that developed educational tools for scientists, public managers, practitioners, and agricultural advisors living and working in peripheral rural areas. Based on the assessment of the educational needs and gaps for the sustainable development of the EU peripheral rural areas of...

The aim of this paper is to show how local multi stakeholder organizations, acting as institutional entrepreneurs can create hybrid spaces that enable them to work through spatial scales and challenge national power relations. We present a case study of a grassroot movement that has managed to offset national policies by engaging in a multiscalar p...

This policy paper builds upon the work carried out in the framework of HNV-Link (H2020 Project, 2016-2019, www.hnvlink.eu), a thematic multi-actor network on High Nature Value (HNV) Farming involving 13 partners from 10 European countries. The goal of this network is to support HNV farming systems by inspiring and sharing innovations/practices that...

Catalogue of all the approved local action groups under the RDP Leader programme for the current financial perspective, 2013-2020

The HNV-Link project final conference held on 31 January 2019 at CIHEAM-IAMM in Montpellier. We highlighted the environmental, social and economic relevance of HNV farming, share our findings from local experiences, and discuss the role of innovation in supporting this vital form of agriculture.

The Dalmatian Islands Learning Area (LA) is a mosaic landscape scattered across the Adriatic Sea. Croatia is the newest member of the European Union and still in the process of adopting the Acquis, and is in the beginning stages of implementing the Common Agricultural Policy's (CAP) Pillar 2 agri-environmental measures. Although the average farm in...

This report looks at innovation that supports HNV farming in Dalmatian islands (LAG Brač, LAG Škoji, LAG 5), and identifies the types of innovation that are missing and needed in order to secure a sustainable future for HNV farming (HNVf). We present examples of innovation existing in this Learning Area (LA) and examples more widely in Croatia (spe...

Analysis of the framework in which innovations take place in LA Dalmatian Islands. The aim of the paper is to describe the dynamics of environmental and socioeconomic development of HNV innovations do not take place.

Cette rencontre internationale a réuni des acteurs français associés à l’Initiative ”petites îles durables” qui s’incarne aujourd’hui à travers l’association Small Island Organisa-tion (SMILO de droit français et sous le patronage du Conservatoire du littoral), avec des acteurs croates locaux et régionaux de la protection, de la gestion et du dével...

In the socialist Yugoslavia the official language policy insisted on one language with two standard varieties. The unity of the language was emphasized, inter-preting differences among each nations language as factors enrichening the "common language" diversity. Collapse of the Federation signified the break-down of the "common language". As a resu...