The Organizational Structuring of Novelty

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20501002
AutoresRoland Chia (0000-0002-9728-0517, University of Essex), Robert Chia (University of Essex), Ian W King (0000-0002-8820-6956, University of Essex)
Año1998
Volumen5
Número4
Páginas461-478
Fecha de publicación1998-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOrganization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/135050849854002
OpenAlexW1997851386
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas14

This paper sets out to examine the contributions of A.N. Whitehead and H. Bergson to our understanding of organization, not as a `thing' or social entity, but as the ongoing creative process of structuring and stabilizing social reality. The paper attempts to theorize the emergence, individuation and sustenance of natural and social phenomena from a truly processual perspective by articulating the underlying principles of the becoming, enduring and perishing of `event-clusters' in an almost inexorable creative advance towards ever more novel configurations of reality. We argue here that this process-inspired metaphysics is more adequate to the task of faithfully charting the intrinsically pre-carious and serendipitous nature of the creative evolution of social systems such as `individuals', `organizations' and `society'

Aesthetics · Creativity · Epistemology · Individuation · Metaphysics · Novelty · Political science · Sociology · Structuring · Sustenance · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology