Turning Hindsight into Foresight - Our Search for the "Philosopher's Stone" of Failure

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 791-803

  Fortune, Joyce ^a   Peters, Geoff ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning; Methodology; Systems failures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035561344     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013186630236     Document Type: Article

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