What Crises Could Teach Us about Complexity and Systemic Management: The Case of the Nestucca Oil Spill

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-129

  Deschamps, Isabelle ^c   Lalonde, Martine ^c   Pauchant, Thierry C ^b   Waaub, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER; MANAGEMENT APPROACH; OIL POLLUTION; SYSTEMIC MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

CANADA;

EID: 0031449396     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(96)00206-5     Document Type: Article

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