Knowledge Production in Organizations: A Processual Autopoietic View

✍ Scribed by Kaj U. Koskinen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The systemic view provides a basic approach through which people may advance their understanding of knowledge production in organizations. One of the most important contributions to this systemic view is the theory of social autopoiesis which emphasizes that knowledge production of organizations can only be understood through the view of a social autopoietic system. Recent developments in the field of organization research have started to view organization as a process rather than as entity. The author combines in this book these two approaches – autopoietic systemic view and process thinking - in a way that organizations are seen as processual autopoietic systems.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Processual Autopoietic Knowledge Production in Organizations....Pages 1-5
Organization....Pages 7-11
Systemic View and Systems Thinking....Pages 13-30
Autopoiesis....Pages 31-48
Process Perspective....Pages 49-60
Luhmann’s View of Social Autopoietic Systems....Pages 61-74
Epistemological Assumptions....Pages 75-78
Knowledge and Knowledge Management....Pages 79-96
Evolution and Learning in Organizations....Pages 97-102
Micro–Macro Problem....Pages 103-104
Macro and Micro Processes....Pages 105-141
Firm as a Processual Autopoietic Knowledge Production Organization....Pages 143-146
Back Matter....Pages 147-172

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Organization/Planning; Industrial Organization