Autopoietic organization theory: drawing on Niklas Luhmann's social system perspective

1. Introduction: Niklas Luhmann\'s autopoietic theory and organization studies -- a space of connections
Tor Hernes and Tore Bakken
2. Communications with decisions as medium and form -- some notes on Niklas Luhmann\'s theory of organization
Jan Inge Jönhill
3. Organization
Niklas Luhmann
4. The macro-micro problem in organization theory: Luhmann\'s autopoiesis as a way of handling recursivity
Tore Bakken and Tor Hernes
5. The emergence of autopoietic organisation
Gorm Harste
6. Observing organizations: an evaluation of Luhmann\'s organization theory
John Mingers
7. Organisational identity in Luhmann\'s theory of social systems
David Seidl
8. Polyphonic organisations
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
9. Management within the system
Dirk Baecker
10. Luhmann and management: a critique of the management theory in Organisation und Entscheidung
Ole Thyssen
11. The undecidability of decision
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
12. The emergence of open-source software projects: how to stabilize self-organizing processes in emergent systems
Michèle Momer
13. Standards for care and statutory flexibility
Holger Højlund and Anders La Cour