Visioning the future of social systems: Evolutionary and discontinuous leap approaches

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 173-182

  Frantz, Tad Goguen ^a  

^a Phillips Graduate Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Appreciative inquiry; Idealized user design of social systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032068375     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1743(199805/06)15:3<173::aid-sres229>3.3.co;2-k     Document Type: Article

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