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In this chapter we investigate certain types of organizational forms which are considered to be sequentially computable rather than Turing computable, i.e., we are considering those organizations which are subject to definite resource and time constraints and which can be split into elemantary computational operations.
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Gottinger, H.W. (1983). Complexity and Organizational Decision Making. In: Coping with Complexity. Theory and Decision Library, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7024-3_7
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