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Bases for the organization of the University-Common Good

Abstract:

Various approaches to Organizational Theory have had a multidisciplinary and diverse character. Each approach has depended on historical circumstances, as well as sociological, administrative and other complex approaches, which have become irreducible to a linear model of interpretation and analysis. In the first part of this article we explore the approaches of Organizational Theory from the relations between organization and knowledge. The second part is about the core of the proposal of university organization which combines two aspects that question the instrumental reason: the first is inspired by the management of commons according to the contribution of the Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Elinor Ostrom (2011); the second assumes the organization as an eco-system, based on Morin’s complexity theory (1974, 1976), which extrapolates the logic of nature and living systems to understand the relationship of complementarity between system and orga-