Unified Science Program, the Case of Organizational Studies

Abstract

The lack of the unifying factor in the so-called organizational studies, which is the scientific intention that derives from the project: Search for Identity of Organizational Studies (unified science), three concepts that are articulated to the Research Program of Organizational Studies: self-organization, transmodernity and the concept of transdisciplinarity as a higher stage in the development of a new paradigm. The hierarchical structure model of Jantsch science is used. This model allows us to discover the unifying language that coordinates the theories and methodologies of disciplines that have their epistemic origin in different origins, that is, nomothetic and ideographic, an example of which is the hidden third; the second and third order, transmodernity and transdisciplinarity. The latter is an ideal as organizing languages of the model in Organizational Studies. Jantsch argues that the maturation of conceptual and categorical structures and fundamental theoretical premises generate general sequential models of thought for the analysis or study of organizations that could lead to a general theory or metatheory, similar to Systems Theory or structures.  Considering the emerging paradigm of self-organization, principles can be found that unify the description of evolution into two important dimensions: (1) through the hierarchy of evolutionary dynamics from ontogeny through phylogeny and (2) through the domains of reality from the physical through biological (sociobiological, ecological) to the sociocultural-organizational field. The unification of organizational studies.