Autopoiesis and Organizational Studies ====================================== A set of Web pages has been installed on the ACM SIGOIS (Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Organizational Information Systems) on the subject: "Self-Organization, Autopoiesis, and Enterprises" This is the inaugural installment of ACM SIGOIS's series entitled "Illuminations". The goal of this series is to bring novel and cutting-edge ideas and research to the organizational computing community. The material includes: -- An overview of self-organization in enterprise studies -- An introduction to Maturana and Varela's theory of autopoiesis -- Discussion and examples of autopoietic theory applied to enterprise / organizational issues -- A substantial bibliography… Address : http://www.acm.org/sigois/auto/Main.html Year : 1996 Archived: first capture 1996 Announced: 2 January 1996, by its own author the description above is theirs Source : comp.infosystems.www.announce, 1996-97 lycos9510 Tags : Science, Usenet Announcement ------------------------------------------------------------------ gopher://hp84.com/ | https://ge97.com/ .