Learning to solve the right problems: the case of nuclear power in America.
In today's turbulent times, it is becoming a strategic necessity to learn how to solve the right problems. Continuing to seek solutions to “tame problems” when those problems are really “messes” or “wicked problems,” such as nuclear power, is potentially catastrophic and therefore fundamentally irr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 12; pp. 105 - 117 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
February 1993
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