Sense-Seeking Systems as Normative Model for Innovative Sociocultural Systems

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 425-442

  Coetzee, F P ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dialectics; Innovation; Multiple visions; Principles; Sense seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034392476     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009558909968     Document Type: Article

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