Fundamental Properties of Organizational Structuralism: From Homogeneity to Autonomy

In this chapter the Methodological Foundations of Organisational Structuralism are presented and analysed such as the necessity of a deductive approach based on observation. Various methodological frames of reference, concepts and patterns have been transposed and adapted to the structuralistic organizational theory deriving from physics or natural sciences and in particular Biology. The main ones are: the Law of noncontradiction as a key concept in organisational structuralism, the Principle of uncertainty in organisational theory and Design, the exclusion principle in Organisational Theory and Design, the Principle of invariance: the first fundamental pillar in Organisational Theory and Design, the principle of teleonomy as the main driver for the creation of symbolic structures, some conceptual deepening of the homogenetic principle, the phylogenetic principle as a fundamental property in organisational theory, the Principle of organisational autonomy, the principle of incompleteness in organisational theory, the principle of successive approximations applied in organisational theory, the principle of observer interference and other important methodological concepts are thoroughly treated.