Business, complexity science and M&A - Why the whole must be more than the sum of its individual parts

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Rupert Vernalls (Stratology.com)

(*) - Systems Thinking - Creative Holism for Managers by Michael C. Jackson (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2003)