A Systemic Action Learning Cycle as the Key Element of an Ongoing Spiral of Analyses

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 95-111

  Paton, Graham ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action learning; Change; Complexity; Managing; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035594432     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009539811800     Document Type: Article

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