The Cold War origin of action research as managerialist cooptation

Human Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 665-693

  Cooke, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Cold War; Cooptation; John Collier; Ronald Lippitt

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745313349     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726706066176     Document Type: Article

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