Working with heterogeneity: A pluralist strategy for evaluation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-111

  Taket, Ann ^a   White, Leroy ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community OR; Evaluation; Pluralism; Post modernism; Systems methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031092396     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199703)14:2<101::AID-SRES116>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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