Group model-building: Tackling messy problems

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 379-401

  Vennix, Jac A M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0142178555     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1727(199924)15:4<379::AID-SDR179>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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