Article: Autopoiesis and the science of (public) administration: ...
Organization Studies;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... applications of the concept of 'autopoiesis' have appeared in various fields ... sciences. The popularity of 'autopoiesis' in the social sciences seems ... model of a living system -- autopoiesis -- which was formulated by ...

Article: Autopoiesis: the conception of joint learning.
European Journal of Management;  December 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... organizations. The second archetype, autopoiesis, defines a joint creation of new knowledge ... or interorganizational learning. Autopoiesis concerns collective learning procedures ... conceptualizations, absorption and autopoiesis, in the context of alliances. Keywords ...

Dictionary definition: autopoiesis
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      298 words ...autopoiesis A key term in Niklas Luhmann 's theory of social subsystems. Autopoiesis refers to the self‐contained and self‐moving nature of subsystems (such as law, economics, or even intimacy). Subsystems generate ...

Article: Canadian infanticide legislation, 1948 and 1955: reflections on ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... medicalization interpretation of infanticide law is broadly apposite, autopoiesis theory provides an overwrought alternative. This is especially ... although he recognizes the divergences between his account and autopoiesis theory. If Ward is right, it is a telling example of the ...

Article: Autopoiesis.(Poem)
TriQuarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     371 words ...A little evening crept into the poet's Bausch & Lombs; he polished them with a chamois scrap until they were invisible. He took a sip of Perrier, admiring his breath in the vinyl cup. This next fragment, he said, is longer than life itself, but it is the shortest lyric I ever conceived. So the

Article: Robbe-Grillet's and Johns's Targets: metafiction, ...
The Comparatist;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote "La Cible" (The Target) as an introduction to the catalogue for the 1978 Jasper Johns exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The introduction was unconventional because it was fiction and bore no resemblance to the interpretive comments or critical analyses

Article: Constructivism
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion;      700+ words ... ... constructivism draw on the concept of autopoiesis as it was introduced by the ... According to the principle of autopoiesis every cognitive system operates ... Moreover, based on the idea of autopoiesis in cognitive systems and its ... the objectionable claim of God being a human construction ...