Current Debates in Action Research

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 457-492

  Dash, D P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Action research future directions; Action research history; Action research present .approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033425001     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022465506555     Document Type: Review

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