There is nothing so theoretical as good action research

Action Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-47

  Friedman, Victor J ^a   Rogers, Tim ^b  

^a THE MAX STERN YEZREEL VALLEY COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Action science; Causality; Organizational learning; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249190201     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: 17412617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750308099596     Document Type: Article

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