Self-organization, knowledge and responsibility

Kybernetes

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 241-260

  Fuchs, Christian ^a   Hofkirchner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Information; Knowledge management; Social systems

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY; SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESS; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 18844426312     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920510575825     Document Type: Article

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