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Organizational First Principles and Introduction to the Organizational Field Theory

In: Organizational Structuralism

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  • Kostas Langas

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In this chapter, some Organizational first principles are reviewed so as to rationalize and sustain the introduction to the Organizational Field Theory. Some fundamental considerations or “starting from first principles” towards a new paradigm for organizational development: the Organizational Fields are presented. The necessary canonical symbolic and material structures for a comprehensive structural field theory of organizations as well as the property of conservative and of non-conservative organizational fields are studied. The organizational fields as non-conservative fields are also discussed including the properties of homogeneity in organizational field theory, of isotropy, of the homeostatic (and heterostatic) properties and the cause-effect correlation. Furthermore, there are the properties of metrification and of anelyxis in Organizations as systems of canonical structures submerged in organizational fields. The principles of organizational structuralism as a field theory derivative and the need towards a new paradigm of managerial ability are also discussed.

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  • Kostas Langas, 2023. "Organizational First Principles and Introduction to the Organizational Field Theory," Springer Books, in: Organizational Structuralism, chapter 0, pages 149-179, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-16049-3_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16049-3_6
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