Generative process, generative outcome: The transformational potential of appreciative inquiry

Advances in Appreciative Inquiry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-113

  Bushe, Gervase R ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84898646582     PISSN: 14759152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1475-9152(2013)0000004003     Document Type: Article

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