From Action Research to System in Environments: A Method

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 683-703

  Alvarez, Rossana C ^a   Emery, Merrelyn ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Fred Emery Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Causal path analysis; Contextualism; Extracted knowledge; Genotypical design principles; Open systems; Qualitative data; Quantitative data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034369052     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009533727718     Document Type: Article

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