Organizations as universal computing machines: Rule systems, computational equivalence, and organizational complexity

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-22

  Moldoveanu, Mihnea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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