Rerum cognoscere causas: Part II - Opportunities generated by the agency/structure debate and suggestions for clarifying the social theoretic position of system dynamics

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 293-309

  Lane, David C ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Shell International ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346042858     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.221     Document Type: Article

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