Inadvertent pathologies of communication in human systems

Kybernetes

Volumn 26, Issue 6-7, 1997, Pages 824-836

  Scott, Bernard ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INADVERTENT PATHOLOGIES; SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS; SOCIOCYBERNETICS;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 0031386252     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684929710170021     Document Type: Article

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