Diagnosing and redesigning a health(y) organization-an arvato (bertelsmann) action research study

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1990-2001

  Laumann, Marcus ^a   Rosenkranz, Christoph ^b   Kolbe, Harald ^b  

^a Arvato Services Healthcare Germany GmbH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complexity; Cybernetics; Information Channels; Modelling; Organizational Engineering

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; BERTELSMANN; COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; INFORMATION CHANNELS; ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERINGS; ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS; WORKING TIME;

CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56749123102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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