Abstract
Systemic Refocusing Strategy (SRS) is an experimental approach intended to facilitate the reconstruction/reformulation of systemic goals. By providing a conceptual framework which enables actors involved in a given situation to reflect on their values and to critique the taken as natural assumptions underlying systemic progress SRS suggests a way of walking rather than the plan of a journey.
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Dudley, P., Hassall, J. (1995). Systemic Refocusing Strategy. In: Ellis, K., Gregory, A., Mears-Young, B.R., Ragsdell, G. (eds) Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9883-8_70
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