Conditioned emergence: A dissipative structures approach to transformation

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 297-316

  MacIntosh, Robert ^a   Maclean, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Complexity theory; Dissipative structures; Organizational learning; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001487972     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199904)20:4<297::AID-SMJ25>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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