Appreciating the complexity of organizational processes

Kybernetes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 454-476

  Espejo, Raul ^a   Kuropatwa, Daniel ^b  

^a Syncho Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Corporate strategy; Cybernetics; Modelling; Organisational development; Organizational processes; Organizational structures

Indexed keywords

MODELS;

CORPORATE STRATEGIES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS; FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 79959560171     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111133683     Document Type: Article

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