SPAN 2)
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"The number of entities at the next natural lower level in a hierarchy which report directly to the entity whose span is to be identified."(T.F.H. ALLEN & T.B. STARR, 1982, p.277).
ALLEN and STARR explain: "… span is observer- defined by what he chooses as natural boundaries, that is, what he determines to be the next boundary inward or the next level down. Span is a matter of appearances, not of ontological truth, altough appearances involving natural boundaries are often shrinking enough…" (p.278).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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