Business cybernetics: a provocative suggestion

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“…Management cybernetics is concerned with questions what things do and how they interact among one another. It covers in organization a field of knowledge, which can help organizations to gain further knowledge in situations where an organization cannot obtain any concrete knowledge (Potocan, Mulej and Kajzer, 2005).…”

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