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"Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice" considers the
potential of autopoiesis theory to provide a new unifying framework
for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational
phenomena as emergent phenomena. The papers in this volume
integrate open systems theory with the pioneering work of Maturana
and Varela (1980, 1992) on autopoiesis in biological systems.
Viewing organizations as living systems opens a powerful new
perspective for describing, explaining, and even predicting
organizational phenomena across the full spectrum of organizations
and environments, from stable to highly dynamic. This collection of
papers brings into focus both the great potential and the important
challenges facing organizational thinkers in building new
organization theory and deriving new principles for management
practice based on autopoiesis theory. The topics include the
fundamental features of autopoiesis theory, the key conceptual
issues surrounding the use of autopoiesis concepts in representing
and analyzing organizations as living systems, and the practical
applications of autopoiesis theory in designing organizations and
managing organizational processes.
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Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI - 7th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2017, Antwerp, Belgium, May 8-12, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
David Aveiro, Robert Pergl, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Joao Paulo Almeida, Rodrigo Magalhaes, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Enterprise
Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2017, held in Antwerp,
Belgium, in May 2017. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that
modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing
world. The participants of the working conference share a belief
that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific
solutions, focusing on the design and engineering of enterprises.
The goal of EEWC is to stimulate interaction between the different
stakeholders, scientists as well as practitioners, interested in
making Enterprise Engineering a reality. The 12 full papers and 4
short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical
sections named: formalisms; standards and laws; business processes;
normalized systems and evolvability; ontologies; and organization
design.
This book attempts to make sense of a new area of integrated study,
namely information systems and information technology (IS/IT) and
the organization. It also aims to bring this mix into the broader
theme of complexity as applied to organization and management and
to draw useful conclusions about how to organize and how to manage
IS/IT in the knowledge era. The author argues in favour of a more
action-oriented - as opposed to planning dominated - approach to
information systems management. Key topics discussed include:
complexity, enacted cognition and autopoiesis applied to
organizations; managerial action as a foil to the prevailing
managerial paradigm; managerial action and the formation of
cultural knowledge contexts in organizations and an holistic
approach to information systems development. The book concludes
with consideration of the problems surrounding epistemology.
Organizational Knowledge and Technology will be warmly welcomed by
academics and researchers working in the areas of technology,
management, information systems and organizational science as well
as information systems managers.
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