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Volume 29, Issue 5-6
1 July 2000
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Research Article| July 01 2000

The viable system model and knowledge management

Allenna Leonard
Allenna Leonard
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
2000
Kybernetes (2000) 29 (5-6): 710–715.
https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920010333143

Knowledge management will only realize its full potential if it addresses the organization as a whole. Beer’s viable system model provides an excellent structure for this.

Keywords: Cybernetics, Knowledge management, Viable systems model
© MCB UP Limited
2000
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