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9 - Relational Agency and the Development of Tools in Service Networks

from Part Two - Working Relationally in Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Anne Edwards
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Working Relationally in and across Practices
A Cultural-Historical Approach to Collaboration
, pp. 153 - 171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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