Design for viable organizations: The diagnostic power of the viable system model

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 955-966

  Schwaninger, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Organizations

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS;

CASE-STUDIES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGNOSIS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33749408732     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610675012     Document Type: Article

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