Identity: The paradoxical nature of organizational closure

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 65-75

  Hoebeke, Luc ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Hoebeke Staes and Partners   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e SIOO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Organizational analysis; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; IDENTITY FUNCTIONS; MULTI-STAKEHOLDER; MULTIPLE IDENTITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER; VIABLE SYSTEMS MODELS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645212455     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610640236     Document Type: Article

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