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The system-theoretic concepts of autopoiesis, as a theory of living systems, are used to develop a metamodel for enterprise information systems. At the core of this model are two fundamental conceptual constructs. The first one is the “negotiated meaning” associated with each thing in the enterprise’s cognitive domains. The second one is the concept of “situation” which “encapsulates” the data/information and behavioral aspects of the constituents of the enterprise universe of discourse together with the communicative processes needed to continuously conceptualize, maintain, and re-conceptualize them. In this model, enterprise information system is viewed as the realization of the enterprise’s autopoieticity in the semiotic situational space. The dynamics of such system is represented through a modified version of an event-driven rule (WHEN…IF…THEN….ELSE). Some of the implications of this approach are discussed in this paper.
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Abou-Zeid, ES. (2000). An Autopoietic View of the Concept ‘Information System’. In: Falkenberg, E.D., Lyytinen, K., Verrijn-Stuart, A.A. (eds) Information System Concepts: An Integrated Discipline Emerging. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 36. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35500-9_14
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