An Interpretation of the Technological Evolution of Human Society—A Self-organization System Perspective

Eric M. Chang () and Chi-Kuo Mao
Additional contact information
Eric M. Chang: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Chi-Kuo Mao: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2023, vol. 36, issue 6, No 1, 827-850

Abstract: Abstract The Industrial Revolution is an important achievement in human history. Its development has gone through machinery, energy, communication, computer, internet, and digital revolutions. This study analyzes this stagewise evolution of technology-driven innovation in human society using the theory of self-organization developed after the 1970s. The authors argue that these major technological breakthroughs all follow the self-organization regularities that take the Principle of Conditional Causality at its core. Self-organizing is the driving force behind history’s silent revolution, ‘taking the technological development environment as the condition and the industrial structure as the system’. It represents the invisible hand, while the establishment of the laws and regulations represent the acquired visible hand, and in combination they form a rich driving force for the evolution of human society. We advocate continuing to develop organizational management theories that meet modern needs based on the organic and systematic perspectives.

Keywords: Complex System; Path Dependence; Emergence; Phase Transition; Co-evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11213-022-09629-5 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:syspar:v:36:y:2023:i:6:d:10.1007_s11213-022-09629-5

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/11213

DOI: 10.1007/s11213-022-09629-5

Access Statistics for this article

Systemic Practice and Action Research is currently edited by Robert Flood

More articles in Systemic Practice and Action Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().