Complexity and Change: Two "Semantic Tricks" in the Triumphant Oscillating Organization

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 297-328

  Andersen, Niels Å ^a   Born, Asmund W ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communication; Complexity; Niklas Luhmann; Public administration; Semantic; Steering; System theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034410142     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009511026806     Document Type: Article

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