This article introduces a model with the help of which the management of businesses can evaluate what kind of a role tacit knowledge plays in their organizations. At the beginning of the article basic elements from which an individual’s competence is derived are described. After that the...

A common charge leveled against the autopoietic perspective is that it does not explain change or, consequently, knowledge creation. This book demonstrates that knowledge creation is not always an ongoing process, as is claimed in many process philosophy and autopoietic research works. The...

Preface by Johan Roos -- Processual Knowledge Production in Autopoietic Organizations -- Organization -- Systemic View and Systems Thinking -- Autopoiesis -- Process Perspective -- Luhmann’s View of Social Autopoietic Systems -- Epistemological Assumptions -- Knowledge and Knowledge Management...