Abstract
Resumo Na teoria dos sistemas autorreferenciais, de Niklas Luhmann, a análise das organizações ocupa lugar de destaque, mas tem sido objeto de inúmeras controvérsias. Nos últimos anos, vêm sendo produzidos um diálogo e um cruzamento com os representantes da filosofia social pós-estruturalista, em particular, com aspectos referentes às possibilidades autorreferenciais das comunicações e da linguagem. Na atualidade, são diversos os pontos de vista teóricos que convergem para uma autodefinição construtivista, ecológica e sistêmica. Como possibilidade alternativa às limitações autopoiéticas na observação das organizações, propõe-se a ideia de autopoiese reflexiva.
Highlights
Organizational studies and societyThe self-referential system theory of Niklas Luhmann, or the General Theory of Social Systems, is a significant contribution to sociology and other areas of knowledge, such as law, administration and organizational theory
This article presents analysis and a research focused on the advancement of organizational social studies using the neo-system perspective, with the following objectives: 1. Show the theoretical advances of Luhmann’s theory, which have influenced and been used in organizational studies
Niklas Luhmann argues that a theory is valid depending on its dynamism and on the possibility to be instrument of self-observation. Against this backdrop this article emphasizes some of the central concepts of Luhmann’s systems theory, recognizing its limitations or paradoxes for the organizational theories (OT), as well as for the ideas regarding the theoretical differences between self-reference and autopoiesis and the notion of operational closure portrayed here
Summary
The self-referential system theory of Niklas Luhmann, or the General Theory of Social Systems, is a significant contribution to sociology and other areas of knowledge, such as law, administration and organizational theory. Standing out among the multiple theories in this debate, are the contributions of philosophy and Organizational theory on specific issues related to organizations (TSOUKAS and CHIA, 2011), together with theoretical contributions from phenomenology (HOLT and SANDBERG, 2011), from the triangulation of philosophies (BECHARA and DE VEN, 2011) and from hermeneutic (BARRETT, POWLEY and PERACE, 2011) In this context, this article presents analysis and a research focused on the advancement of organizational social studies using the neo-system perspective, with the following objectives: 1. Niklas Luhmann argues that a theory is valid depending on its dynamism and on the possibility to be instrument of self-observation (allowing self-referentiality) Against this backdrop this article emphasizes some of the central concepts of Luhmann’s systems theory, recognizing its limitations or paradoxes for the organizational theories (OT), as well as for the ideas regarding the theoretical differences between self-reference and autopoiesis and the notion of operational closure portrayed here
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