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Description for Brain of the Firm
Paperback. This revised edition of a business management textbook develops an account of a company based upon insights derived from the study of the human nervous system. It outlines the author's theory of viable systems practice. Series: Classic Beer Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know."
—Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA
"If ... anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer . everyone in management ... should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and ... even elegant diagrams."
—The Economist
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Classic Beer Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471948391
SKU
V9780471948391
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Harnden
Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.
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