Vencendo a complexidade: um conceito de fitness organizacional

Abstract

The approaches to the strategic management of organizations, which are based on an exclusively economic perspective, lack an underlying theory capable of enhancing organizational viability and development. The author proposes a new framework to support the design and control of organizations based on organizational cybernetics and directed towards full-fledged organizational fitness. This framework focuses on the management of complexity, leading to integral (self-)control and including the notions of "pre-control" and "viability beyond survival". The argument of the paper is corroborated by empirical evidence.