Systemic action research: Changing system dynamics to support sustainable change

Action Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-18

  Burns, Danny ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; complexity; participatory; Systemic action research; systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894225579     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: 17412617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750313513910     Document Type: Article

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