Processes and organizations as systems: When the processors are people, not pentiums

Systems Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-111

  Pajerek, Lorraine ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

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EID: 23744475051     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6858(2000)3:2<103::aid-sys5>3.0.co;2-d     Document Type: Article

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