Walking the line: Making and dissolving distinctions with the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity

50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2006, ISSS 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 481-488

  Leonard, Allenna ^a  

^a The Complementary Set   (Canada)

Author keywords

Requisite variety; Team syntegrity; Viable systems model

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TOOL; FEED-BACK LOOP; MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS; REQUISITE VARIETY; TEAM SYNTEGRITY; VERTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL; VIABLE SYSTEMS MODELS;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84875608202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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