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Is translation an autopoietic system?

2010

Translation is analyzed from the standpoint of its systemic properties. Translation is shown to have the capacity to observe itself and its difference from the environment. Observation being a major autopoietic factor, translation may be considered as an autopoietic system. Doubts about this hypothesis arise because of the peculiarities of communicative properties of translation. Translation plays the role of the mediating party in complex translation communication events and its communicative behavior is ‘defective’ in that translation does not act upon source messages because its communicative function is passing messages on to the target party. As a system, translation may be studied aga…

Linguistics and LanguageAutopoiesisTraducció -- Aspectes socialsSociología de la traducciónmedia_common.quotation_subjectOperational closureArt historyNiklas LuhmannTranslation (geometry)Language and LinguisticsCommunicative behaviorEducationLuhmann NiklasSociology of translationAutopoiesisOpenness to experienceSociologyFunction (engineering)AutopoesiTeoría de los sistemas socialesmedia_commonUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASCommunicationLuhmann Niklas -- Crítica i interpretacióbusiness.industryTraducción e InterpretaciónSocial systems theorySocial system:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]Luhmann Niklas; Social systems theory; Autopoiesis; Sociology of translationbusiness
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Organizational Decision Making: The Luhmannian Decision Communication Perspective

2014

Studies of organizational communication around decision-making and decision communication have largely concerned how decisions should be made and promoted. Less efforts have focused on how decisions should be communicated inside organizations and how they influence organizational effectiveness and performance. This study examined decision communication in an engineer-based organization 2008–2009. Key findings demonstrate that effective decision communication can be considered as the backbone of organizational communication, which can benefit the whole organization from the top management to lower levels. This paper also discussess the concept of decision communication generally and from the…

päätöksentekoorganizational communicationdecision communicationorganisaatiotNiklas Luhmann
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