How information becomes a resource for action in an uncertain and complex world: Sense-making and contingency in the knowing process

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-165

  Magne, Marie Angélina ^a   Cerf, Marianne ^b  

^a UMR Territoires   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Farming systems; Information activity; Information resources; Knowing process; Sense making

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249153883     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000009788632331     Document Type: Article

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