Business cybernetics: A provocative suggestion

Kybernetes

Volumn 34, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1496-1516

  Potocan, Vojko ^a   Mulej, Matjaz ^a   Kajzer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644560248     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920510614786     Document Type: Article

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