Mind your Metaphors: Lessons from Complexity Science

Long Range Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 294-298

  Lissack, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0004519134     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-6301(96)00120-3     Document Type: Article

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