Serious play as a practice of paradox

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-256

  Statler, Matt ^a   Heracleous, Loizos ^b   Jacobs, Claus D ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

paradox of intentionality; practice theory; serious play

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955688304     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886311398453     Document Type: Article

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