Abstract
While closed systems theory carries a commitment to the status quo, open systems theory carries a commitment to open exchanges across systems' boundaries with their environments, and a commitment to managed change. These commitments and their normative implications are exposed in organizational behavior studies using open systems theory in living systems at the levels of both organizations and societies.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 311-324 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Behavioral Science |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1979 |
Keywords
- boundary subsystem
- open system
- organization
- organizational health
- society
- structural‐functionalism
- technocracy