Download or read book Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice written by R. Magalhães R. Sanchez Staff and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.