Complexity, complicatedness and complexity: A new science behind organizational intervention?

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 40-48

  Price, If ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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