Groundwork of a Sartrean Input Toward Informing Some Concerns of Critical Systems Thinking

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 585-605

  Georgiou, Ion ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical Systems Thinking; General System Theory; Sartre; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033463252     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022499527360     Document Type: Article

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