Organizational closure and conceptual coherence

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 901, Issue , 2000, Pages 301-310

  Scott, Bernard ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVERSATION; CYBERNETICS; DYNAMICS; LEARNING; MODEL; SCIENCE; THEORY;

EID: 0034063274     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06289.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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