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Systems movement

Autobiographical retrospectives: Learning your way to ‘action to improve’ – the development of soft systems thinking and soft systems methodology

Peter Checkland Lancaster University, Lancaster, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 487-512 | Published online: 18 May 2011

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