A cybernetic exploration of methodological complementarism

Kybernetes

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 527-542

  Yolles, Maurice ^a  

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EID: 0011737940     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684929810221564     Document Type: Article

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