Doing action research in one's own organization: An ongoing conversation over time

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 331-349

  De Guerre, Donald W ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action research; Cultural change; Open systems; Organization change; Pragmatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141687033     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016348421584     Document Type: Article

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