Parkinson's Law quantified: Three investigations on bureaucratic inefficiency

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Klimek, Peter ^a   Hanel, Rudolf ^a   Thurner, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interacting agent models; Socio economic networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449143292     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/03/P03008     Document Type: Article

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