The Current Version of Emery's Open Systems Theory

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 623-643

  Emery, Merrelyn ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Fred Emery Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Contextualism; Genotypical design principles; Interaction; Learning; Open systems; Participative democracy; Transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358859     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009577509972     Document Type: Article

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