Action Research and the Management and Systems Sciences

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-101

  Flood, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(in)commensurability; Action research; Complementarity; Holism; Management sciences; Systems sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032393486     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022917022601     Document Type: Article

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