Knowing Wuli, Sensing Shili, Caring for Renli: Methodology of the WSR Approach

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-20

  Gu, Jifa ^a   Zhu, Zhichang ^b  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eastern thought; Methodological pluralism; Renli; Shili; Systems engineering; Systems methodology; Wuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034405561     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009567421256     Document Type: Article

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