Enterprise Architecture cybernetics and the edge of chaos: Sustaining enterprises as complex systems in complex business environments

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3858-3867

  Kandjani, Hadi ^a   Bernus, Peter ^a   Nielsen, Sue ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; CO-EVOLUTION; COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT; CYBERNETIC THEORIES; EDGE OF CHAOS; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; MODEL OF SYSTEMS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

CYBERNETICS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84875497821     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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