Grounded action: Achieving optimal and sustainable change

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Simmons, Odis E ^a   Gregory, Toni A ^a  

^a Fielding Graduate Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Complexity; Grounded action; Grounded theory; Organizational change; Soil change; Transformative learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342999374     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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