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Economic Environment and Drivers of Change
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The workplace, the company, and the world are not even remotely what they were ten years ago. There has never been a time in history when changes have evolved so rapidly, discontinuously, and nonlinearly while affecting so many aspects of everyday and corporate life. Sure, changes are not novel to history, yet the quantitative and qualitative leaps (flux), and the increasing complexity has never been experienced in such a way. As a result, corporate life has become and is becoming more complex, complicated, and paradoxical.
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Supply Chain Knowledge Management Business School Learning Organization Complexity Theory
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