Understanding Business
Subtitle: Process (Understanding Business)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415238625
Subjects: Business strategy; Microeconomics; Organizational theory & behaviour; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Corporate & Business History - Strategies; Business & Economics / Management; Management - General
First sentence: This chapter defines the characteristics of open social systems and summarises the current theoretical position as a prelude to a discussion of the ideas of several outstanding theorists who have contributed to the growing understanding of organisations as systems.