This conceptual article draws attention to the
autopoietic epistemology as a potential observational
scheme to describe project-based companies’ knowledge
production. In the beginning of the article the concept
of project-based company is described. After that the
epistemological assumptions are highlighted with the
purpose to get a better understanding of what is
knowledge and how knowledge is produced. And then
follows the main content of the article, namely the
study on autopoietic knowledge production in four
different knowledge related project work environments.
The article ends with the conclusion according to which
it is a necessity to project-based companies that new
projects differ enough from each other by that means
bringing about the continuation of autopoietic knowledge
production. 2008
