Mechanistic, or Biotic Organizations: Research of Organizational Principles towards Sustainability of Social Systems

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2017.6.1(8)" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2017.6.1(8)</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2017.6.1(8)" target="_blank" >10.9770/jssi.2017.6.1(8)</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mechanistic, or Biotic Organizations: Research of Organizational Principles towards Sustainability of Social Systems

Original language description

This article deals with the question of how we perceive organizations – as machines for making money, or as living systems with specific needs and objectives. In accordance with these views, a model of a biotic organization has been created with the research aim to measure the level of representation of biotic organizations in the business environment. The model of a biotic organization consists of four principles: amorphous structure, leadership, shared vision and service to its own environment. In practice, the existence of the individual elements of the biotic organization were evaluated by quantitative and qualitative research. Answers were sought and found to the four partial questions put forward, namely: What is the purpose of the existence of the organization? What type of structure is applied in organizations? Is there a shared vision within organizations? Which of these principles, management or leadership, is applied more in practice? The results of the research show that only five percent of organizations in the business environment are biotic organizations. This confirms the research hypothesis that this organizational form is not prevalent in the current economic environment. The low level application of biotic principles reveals that most companies are still organized on the basis of the principles of mechanistic organizations. This is reflected in formal hierarchies, a yramidal structure and traditional management that create an environment of command and control.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

ISSN

2029-7017

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9/2017

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

94-112

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85030636181