The Person on the Street's Understanding of Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-13

  Dawidowicz, Paula ^a  

^a WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Social systems; Systems education; Systems learning; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856015505     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.1094     Document Type: Article

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