Building grounded theory in action research through the interplay of subjective ontology and objective epistemology

Action Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-83

  Poonamallee, Latha ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Change; Paradigms; Postcolonialism; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249124641     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: 17412617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750308099598     Document Type: Article

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