Epilogue to Part I: The Two “Archai” Combined

Jan Achterbergh () and Dirk Vriens ()
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Jan Achterbergh: Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences
Dirk Vriens: Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences

Chapter Chapter 5 in Organizations, 2009, pp 165-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chap. 1 we advanced the position that organizations have an experimental and a social “arche.” These “archai” are features of organizations that cannot be negated without negating organizations altogether. They are unavoidable characteristics of the “phenomena” we call organizations. Following Aristotle’s “method” of starting with the phenomena as we experience them, we introduced the “archai” referring to everyday experiences with organizations. In the chapters that followed, we explored the experimental and social “arche” separately. We formulated them in terms of the “languages” of (first and second-order) cybernetics and social systems theory. This resulted in a “theoretical” understanding of our everyday experiences with each of the two “archai.” However, this leaves us with a separate understanding of the : “archai” which is still insufficient to theoretically understand organizations as social systems conducting risky experiments. For this reason, we need to take one final step in which the two “archai” are combined.

Keywords: Social System; Organizational Communication; Social System Theory; Goal Program; Meaningful Life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00110-9_5

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