Organisations, complexity, and viable knowledge management

Kybernetes

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2000, Pages 1202-1222

  Yolles, Maurice ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Knowledge management; Organizations

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; STRUCTURED METHOD; CRITICAL APPROACH;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0034551640     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920010346257     Document Type: Article

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