Action, structure and chaos

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-143

  Thiétart, Raymond Alain ^a   Forgues, Bernard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chaos; Complexity; Crisis; Determinism; Voluntarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039466310     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800107     Document Type: Article

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