The scientific visualization of organizations: A rationale for a new approach to organizational modeling

Decision Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Markham, Steven E ^a  

^a PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Levels of Analysis; Organizational Evolution; Organizational Forms; Organizational Modeling; Scientific Visualization; Virtual Organizations; Within and Between Analysis (WABA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032222132     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1998.tb01342.x     Document Type: Article

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