Complexity and Change: Two "Semantic Tricks" in the Triumphant Oscillating Organization

This article is about the effects of the semantics "complexity and change" used for intraorganizational communication about the relation between organization and environment. Our hypothesis is that communications along this semantic will have profound effects on the organization as to stee...

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Published in:Systemic practice and action research 2000-06, Vol.13 (3), p.297
Main Authors: Andersen, Niels Å, Born, Asmund W
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