Designing a Management System for a Rural Community Development Organization Using a Systemic Action Research Process

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 517-542

  Luckett, Sidney ^a   Ngubane, Steven ^a   Memela, Bhekathina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Critical Systems Thinking; Participatory Action Research; Rural development; Soft Systems Methodology; Viable Systems Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035637509     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011360204102     Document Type: Article

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