Systemic action research: A strategy for whole system change

Systemic Action Research: A Strategy for Whole System Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-194

  Burns, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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