An applied social systems procedure for generating purposive sound futures

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 315-325

  Passig, David ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agreement; Change; Emergence; Group interaction; Imen Delphi (ID); Social systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032117268     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199807/08)15:4<315::AID-SRES199>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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