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Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies

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  1. Kaj U. Koskinen
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Autopoietic Knowledge Systems: An Alternative View of Project-Based Companies

    • Kaj U. Koskinen
    Pages 1-5

  3. Project Business

    • Kaj U. Koskinen
    Pages 6-12

  4. Systemic View and Systems Thinking

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    Pages 13-33

  5. Autopoiesis

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    Pages 34-53

  6. Epistemological Assumptions

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    Pages 54-58

  7. Knowledge Dividend

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    Pages 59-85

  8. Evolution and Learning

    • Kaj U. Koskinen
    Pages 86-105

  9. Components of the Project-Based Company When it is Regarded as an Autopoietic Knowledge System

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    Pages 106-174

  10. Two Major Knowledge Flows

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    Pages 175-181

  11. The Project-Based Company as an Autopoietic Knowledge System

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    Pages 182-189

  12. Epilogue

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    Pages 190-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 192-227
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About this book

This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.

About the author

DR KAJ U. KOSKINEN has worked for many years as a Project Manager in several international engineering companies, including Outokumpu and Honeywell. His main experience derives from process automation. Since 1997 he has been a Senior Lecturer (Docent) in Industrial Management and Engineering at Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland. Dr Koskinen's research interest is focused on knowledge and project management, and he has published several articles and together with Professor Emeritus Pekka Pihlanto the book Knowledge Management in Project-Based Companies: An Organic Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

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