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Reflexiones en torno a los usos del concepto de autopoiesis en la filosofía contemporánea

open access: yesPraxis Filosófica
El concepto de autopoiesis ha tenido un importante impacto en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales, en la filosofía y las humanidades en general. Algunos intelectuales contemporáneos han llevado a cabo una apropiación crítica del mismo y otrxs han ...
Tomás Ramos Mejía   +2 more
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Organization, Autopoiesis and Human Potential as Paradigm of the Future Organization

open access: yesOrganizacija, 2018
Background and purpose: Eternal challenge to researchers of organization theory is how to develop a suitable organization for increasingly more complex internal and external processes, and how to set a simple definition for it.
Peček Tanja Balažic, Ovsenik Marija
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Enactivism, action and normativity: a Wittgensteinian analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we offer a criticism, inspired by Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations, of the enactivist account of perception and action.
Heras-Escribano, Manuel   +2 more
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The problems of offenders with mental disorders: A plurality of perspectives within a single mental health care organisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Managers, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, unqualified staff and service users were interviewed for a qualitative study of risk management and rehabilitation in an inner city medium secure forensic mental health ...
Jacqueline P. Davies   +26 more
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Social Regulation of Organizational Communications in the Context of N. Luhmann's Autopoiesis Theory

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2011
In the article based on the analysis of N. Luhmann' theory of autopoiesis, theoretical and practical aspects of social regulation of communications in a certain organization are described.
E G Vishnevetskiy
doaj  

Autopoiesis in Virtual Organizations [PDF]

open access: yesInformatică economică, 2008
Virtual organizations continuously gain popularity because of the benefits created by them. Generally, they are defined as temporal adhocracies, project oriented, knowledge-based network organizations.
Malgorzata PAMKOWSKA
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 96-110, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
wiley   +1 more source

Review: The Powers of the Universe by Brian Swimme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay presents a review on Brian Swimme’s 3-DVD set of lecture series in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. In the eleven 45-minute episodes of a systematic 9-hour immersive program, a set of 12 intercorrelated ...
ma, Z. G.
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MECHANISMS OF AUTOPOIESIS IN THE SYSTEM BASIS MAN-MADE WORLD

open access: yesОткрытое образование (Москва), 2016
The article is devoted to the problem of co-evolution of man-made environment, and human society. We explain the information and network technologies impact both on mankind and society.
Sergey F. Sergeev
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