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Autopoiesis means self-creation, but why is that concept so interesting? It was coined by the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana around 1...

Many social and organizational researchers want to improve organizational life or transform some such corner of the world. That seems like a...

You’re a teacher, a lecturer, a professor. You have an hour’s worth of lecturing to do. How do you help your students get more out of your s...

1. Det er ikke primært flere forskningsmidler, vi har brug for Alle forskere ønsker flere penge til forskningen. Men det er ikke mængden a...

I read an interesting factoid in the Wikipedia the other day: that ”Maturana has explicitly refused to be cited by Luhmann as a supporting t...

[Trykt i Weekendavisen, Ideer s. 8, d. 9. juni 2006] Er samfundsvidenskaberne indrettet på at hjælpe samfundet udvikle sig? Nej, det var ...

Trykt i Information, 18. april 2006 Information har i en serie artikler med temaet ”Ud af kosteskabet” belyst det spørgsmål, jeg rejser i ...

I have a new book out, in Danish: "Forskning i sammenhænge", or "Research that Connects". I argue that the natural and...

Here's a conceptual challenge for students of facilitation. You can't tell people, "Make sure to have fun at the party and laug...

There is much talk of the knowledge society. But for that, we need a new understanding of what knowledge is: Action knowledge. For a start, ...