Autopoiesis

Autopoiesis

See Also

• Governance
• Complexity
• Network
• Network Society
• Self-
  Organizing System
• Sociocybernetics
• Systems Theory

Further Reading

• Luhmann, N. (1995). Social systems. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford
  University Press.
  Mingers, J. (1995). Self-producing systems: The implications
  and applications of autopoiesis. New York: Plenum Press.
  Varela, F., & Maturana, H. (1974). Autopoiesis: The
  organization of living systems, its characterization and a
  model. Biosystems, 5, 187 196.
• Autopoiesis in the Encyclopedia of Governance, Mark Bevir – University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2007, SAGE Publications