Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy

Kybernetes

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 726-764

  Yolles, Maurice ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Management

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; FORMAL LOGIC; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CYBERNETIC PARADIGMS; HOMOMORPHISMS; SOCIAL COMMUNITIES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 2342631340     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920410523670     Document Type: Review

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