Expanding the framework for monitor and control in soft systems methodology

Systems Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 469-495

  Bergvall Kåreborn, Birgitta ^a   Grahn, Anita ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical Systems Thinking (CST); Evaluation criteria for design; Multi Modal Methodology (MMM); Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007341444     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02168872     Document Type: Article

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