Appreciating Systems: Critical Reflections on the Changing Nature of Systems as a Discipline in a Systems-Learning Society

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 559-586

  Maiteny, P T ^a,b   Ison, R L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Grubb Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appreciative setting; Critical reflection; Learning society; Systems learning; Systems as discipline

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034375967     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009549632626     Document Type: Article

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