Applied hermeneutics and qualitative safety data: The CIRAS project

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 587-607

  Wallace, Brendan ^a   Ross, Alastair ^a   Davies, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidents; Hermeneutics; Interpretation; Qualitative; Quantitative; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038507445     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726703056005004     Document Type: Review

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