ORGANIZATION

Charles François (2004). ORGANIZATION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2405.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 2405 ▶
Object type

“A system with multiechelon deciders whose components and subsystems may be subsidiary organizations, groups and (uncommonly) single persons” (Adapted from J.G. MILLER, 1978, p.595).

This is, in MILLER's taxonomy of living systems, the level that supersedes the group.

MILLER states: “Organizations are subsystems, components, or subcomponents of societies, sometimes more than of one society (p.595).