A play of four arenas: How complexity can serve management development

Management Learning

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-123

  Luoma, Mikko ^a  

^a JTO School of Management   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complexity; Management development; Non linearity; Self organization; Strategy; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747891307     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507606058136     Document Type: Article

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