Change within Knowledge Based Organizations : A Processual-Organic Approach

The paper focuses on change processes interpreted within the processual organic framework of investigation. We try to demonstrate that the systemic equilibrium is not able to characterize a functional relation between change and transformation. Even though the systemic approach has a serious impact in science, change processes are not adequately characterized by means of equilibrium schemes. The novelty of our approach is obtained from innovating the ontological and methodological premises that underlie research of the social existence. We argue that the social “objects” of study can be properly examined through at least four types of analyses: ontological, historiographical, futurological and praxiological