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Systems View of Management and Organizations

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Dealing with Complexity
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This is the first of three chapters dealing with Theme C. Theme C provides a focus on systems ideas applied in the social domain. We start by undertaking a critical review of cybernetics and organization theory. This chapter first appeared in 1988 without the case study (Flood and Jackson, 1988).

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Flood, R.L., Carson, E.R. (1993). Systems View of Management and Organizations. In: Dealing with Complexity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2235-2_5

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