Since the SGSR (now ISSS) started its operation many groups and societies, that aim at applying and developing systems (and also cybernetics) have been established. In each case, scientists, technologists, engineers, practitioners, etc. working with specific disciplines are searching how to cope with all possible kinds of wholes, and also how to create new ones. All along the last rather few decades the system as a concept has been implemented and developed for making feasible to improve substantially the management of organizations; to conceive unique insights into the character of social and behavioral systems; to provide common methodological approaches for different sciences; to conceive, design and built new technological facilities; etc. Some societies are listed here:

 American Society for Cybernetics
 Asociación Argentina de Teoría General de Sistemas y Cibernética
 Asociación Mexicana de Sistemas y Cibernética
 Australian New Zealand Systems Conference
 Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
 Bulgarian Society fo Systems Research
 College de Systemique de l'Association Française de Science des Systèmes Cybernétiques,
 Cognitifs et Techniques
 Cybernetic Academy "Stefan Odobleja"
 Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts und Sozialkybernetik (Germany)
 Hellenic Systems Society
 Instituto Andino de Sistemas
 Italian Association for Research on Systems
 Korean Society for Systems Research
 Polish Systems Society
 Slovenian Society for Systems Research
 Sociedad Española de Sistemas Generales
 Society of Management Science and Applied Cybernetics
 Systeemgroep Nederland
 Systems Engineering Society (China)
 Systems Science European Union (UES)
 United Kingdom Cybernetics Society
 United Kingdom Systems Society
 Swedish Operational Research Association

 Center for Intelligent Systems
 Institute for Law and Systems Research
 Institute for the Study of Complex Systems
 Principia Cybernetica
 Washington Evolutionary Systems Society

 Association Internationale de Cybernetique (Belgium)
 International Institute for Advanced Studies in Cybernetics and Systems
 International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (Venezuela)
 International Society for the Systems Sciences
 International Systems Institute
 Research Committee on Sociocybernetics in the International Sociological Association
 World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics