An argument for active citizenship and organisational transparency

Kybernetes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 477-493

  Espejo, Raul ^a   Bendek, Zoraida Mendiwelso ^b  

^a Syncho Research and World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Communities; Cybernetics; Empowerment; England; Organisational structures

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS;

CITIZENSHIP; COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENTS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPOWERMENT; ENGLAND; ITS APPLICATIONS; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 79959562139     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111133692     Document Type: Article

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