Complexity: The Evolution of Identity and Diversity

Issues in Business Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue , 2010, Pages 41-60

  Allen, Peter M ^a   Strathern, Mark ^a   Varga, Liz ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary Stable Strategy; Galapagos Island; Interpretive Framework; Organizational Form; Structural Attractor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884922432     PISSN: 09256733     EISSN: 22151680     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9187-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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