Towards organizational self-awareness: An initial architecture and ontology

Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-121

  Zacarias, Marielba ^a,b   Magalhães, Rodrigo ^c,d,e   Caetano, Artur ^e   Pinto, H Sofia ^c,e,f   Tribolet, José ^e  

^a Center for Organizational Design and Engineering INESC INOV   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Kuwait Maastricht Business School   (Kuwait)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^f INESC ID   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-660-0.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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