Pragmatic pluralism - An explication

Systems Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 571-586

  Taket, Ann ^a   White, Leroy ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intervention; Methodology; Pluralism; Poststructuralism; Systems practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749312401     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02169214     Document Type: Article

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