A Teleonic Management Framework for Organizations

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-217

  Járos, György G ^b   Dostal, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Matrix organization; Process based systems; Reengineering; Teleonics; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041545011     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022478114619     Document Type: Article

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