Transpoiesis
The art of doing organization without becoming one
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22167239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Schröder (0000-0002-5684-3619, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2504-284X • E-ISSN: 2504-284X |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/feduc.2025.1473763 |
| OpenAlex | W4407039447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
This paper uses the concept of transpoiesis to describe the mechanisms that sustain social movements. Emerging from ethnographic research on the World Social Forum (WSF) and inspired by systems theory, transpoiesis emphasizes the dynamic balance within social movements between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. This differentiates it from autopoiesis, which focuses on self-sustaining systems that maintain and reproduce their structure autonomously through internal processes, rather than emphasizing the dynamic balance between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. Transpoiesis offers a particularly instructive model in the digital age, when classical explanations often fail to account for the rapid pace of change, innovation, flexibility and decentralized collaboration that characterize modern organizations. The concept aids in understanding how social movements build collective identities, navigate organizational dynamics, structure collective learning, and contribute to social change. Moreover, it reflects the broader shift toward network-based arrangements in contemporary organizations, an adaptation to the complexities of the digital environment
Autopoiesis · Cybernetics · Knowledge management · Management · Pace · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Survival in the doldrums
Global Civil Society 2004/5
Reflexive Grounded Theory
Stories of Change
Loosely Coupled Systems
An Organizational Learning Framework
Political Parties
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations
Organization outside organizations
Soziale Bewegungen als Orte organisationspädagogischer Praxis und Forschung
Paradigmen der Bewegungsforschung
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Social Movements and Networks
Einführung in die computergestützte Analyse qualitativer Daten
The Differentiation of Society
Tricks of the Trade
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Collective Memory Anchors
The Rise of the Global Left
Gemeinsam interpretieren
Soziale Arbeit und Soziale Bewegungen
Soziale Bewegungen als Kommunikationssystem
Was ist eine soziale Bewegung
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
The dilemmas of open space
Organizational Learning
Ethnographies as Texts
Social Movement Spillover
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society
Disappearing 'formal organization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |