“…The notion of autopoiesis can be found in, for example, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, political science, and organization science (see e.g. Escobar, 1994;Kickert, 1993;Boscolo & Bertrando, 1992;Dobuzinskis, 1992; In 't Veld e t al., 1992;Lyddon & McLaughlin, 1992;Ciompi, 1991;Kaplan & Kaplan, 1991;Rosseel & Van Engeland, 1991;Smith & Gemmil, 1991;van Steenbergen, 1990). Also, autopoiesis has given rise to the characterization of law as an autopoietic system (Teubner, 1988), and has played a major role in the field of the so-called second-order cybernetics (Harnden, 1990;Geyer & van der Zouwen, 1986).…”