Work processes, organizational structures and cooperation supports: Managing complexity

Annual Reviews in Control

Volumn 21, Issue , 1997, Pages 149-157

  De Michelis, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business process engineering co operation; Group work; Organizational factors; Socio technical system design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343040006     PISSN: 13675788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5788(97)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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