Discordant pluralism: A new strategy for critical systems thinking

Systems Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 605-625

  Gregory, Wendy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constellation; Critical systems thinking: complementarism; Discordant pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003225282     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02169216     Document Type: Article

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