Good social cybernetics is a must in policy processes

Kybernetes

Volumn 44, Issue 6-7, 2015, Pages 874-890

  Espejo, Raul ^a,b  

^a World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics   (United Kingdom)

^b Syncho Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Policy processes; Reflexivity; Self organization; Self reference; Structural recursion; Viable system model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942739566     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/K-02-2015-0050     Document Type: Article

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