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From Allopoietic to Autopoietic Self-Management
From Allopoietic to Autopoietic Self-Management

Author(s): Tanja Balažic Peček, Ante Lauc, Anton P. Železnikar, Boris Bukovec
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Organizational Psychology, Social Theory, Management and complex organizations, Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: allopoiesis; autopoiesis; self-referencing; self-organisation; self- management; human capital; ethics; holism;

Summary/Abstract: A person is an autopoietic being who ensures his/her quality of life and creation by self- and co-operation in a live autopoietic network. Organisation as well as society must act as a harmonic self-learning subject which has strong internal connections and is autonomous, while having an ethical-ecological connection with environment. From its short history we are reviving the principle of self-management as an element of autopoietic organisation, based on person’s humanity, self-cognition and ethical-moral views, as a turning point of society and moral capital. We proved that self-management is an element of autopoietic organisation, integrated into an autopoietic network, and that organisations have a lack of reflection, which can be filled in by the model of “The Informational Graph of Autopoiesis”. The research opens new possibilities of holistic approach for developing new organisation paradigms to establish organisation of future: How from allopoietic to autopoietic self-management? We developed new prospects, represented by a model “The Tree of Development”, as a model of an autopoietic organization. The final objective of our study is to connect science, art and high technology so that we achieve autopoietic culture of life.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 03+04
  • Page Range: 19-42
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English