Carolina QuotesThe study of the conditions for change begins appropriately with an analysis of the conditions for “no change,” that is, for the state of equilibrium.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 40.
- work
- Quasi-Stationary Social Equilibria and the Problem of Permanent Change, 1947
- year
- 1947
- locator
- p. 40
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