Enterprise-in-environment adaptation: Enterprise architecture and complexity management

A Systemic Perspective to Managing Complexity with Enterprise Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 216-236

  Lapalme, James S ^a   De Guerre, Donald W ^b  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENT ADAPTATION; MANAGEMENT CONCERNS; PARTICIPATIVE DESIGNS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84956776898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4518-9.ch006     Document Type: Chapter

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