Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Heterophony and the Postponed Organization Organizing autopoietic systems

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm Born, Asmund W.

Copenhagen Business School

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Abstract

Organisational systems communicate and create themselves through decisions and therefore consist of nothing but premises for decision making (Luhmann 1993, Seidl & Becker 2006). Organisations are founded on principles of exclusion: Everybody is excluded from organisational communication except those who are members of the organisation i.e. who are included in the decision-making (Luhmann 1982, 1994, 2003, Andersen 2003b). Membership limitation, without subscribing to a rigid definition of membership, is therefore central to the autopoiesis of organisation.

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 6 
Issue 2 
Issue date 2007 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 176-186
ISSN 1532-5555