Natural science models in management: Opportunities and challenges

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 61-75

  Robertson, Duncan A ^a   Caldart, Adrián A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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