Organisations and change
Institutions, working practices and what makes lasting change possible.
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Research posts: Organisations and change
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After the sustainability workshop, who can change the work?
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Education and learning · Environment and sustainability · Organisations and change · ReviewsA sustainability workshop may change how colleagues understand one another’s work. Whether that understanding can change a purchasing decision, a staffing allocation or an operating routine is a further question.
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Capacity for change needs a named system and a timescale
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Environment and sustainability · Knowledge and research · Organisations and change · ReviewsAn organisation can become better at delivering a programme while the wider problem remains unchanged. A community can also change practices substantially while official indicators barely register the difference. Before assessing a capacity for transformation, we need to say what is supposed…
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What makes a group an agent?
We routinely say that a team decided, a queue moved or an organisation responded. The language is convenient. Explaining when the collective itself counts as an agent is harder.
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The work that makes room for urban wildlife
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Cities and public life · Environment and sustainability · Organisations and change · ReviewsA city makes room for wildlife through decisions that can look remarkably ordinary: when a surface is cleaned, which part of a building remains accessible, and who pays for work that must be done again next season. These decisions deserve a place…
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The platform had not arrived, but the school had already moved
Tags: AI and society · Autopoietic Ecology · Education and learning · Organisations and change · ReviewsA three-year ethnography shows how digital platforms can reorganise schools through anticipation and legitimacy before their effects are settled. A critical review asks when atmosphere becomes explanation—and whether schools preserve the capacity to change course.
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Why recognising a problem does not always change what happens next
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Meaning mediation · Organisations and change · Political economy and inequalityAn organisation can record a difficulty while leaving its next decision unchanged. AE asks whose work bridges that gap and how change becomes possible.
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What does refusing AI make visible?
Tags: AI and society · Ethics and governance · Meaning mediation · Organisations and change · ReviewsFaisal Saeed Malik treats resistance to AI as possible evidence about who can interpret, challenge and reshape computational authority. A critical reading asks what would make that diagnosis reliable.
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The work behind a stable legal meaning
Tags: Autopoietic Ecology · Ethics and governance · Meaning mediation · Organisations and change · ReviewsOguz Kaan Pehlivan separates the continuity of legal argument from the stabilisation of meaning. A critical reading asks how authority and the work of maintaining interpretation could be investigated without circular explanations.