도가사상과 카오스이론 비교 연구: 조직관리를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reconfirm the potential applicability of the chaos theory to organizational management by comparing the similiarities between chaos theory and Doism. There has been some effort to apply chaos theory to organization management due to the rapidity of the environmental changes. Chaos theory can cover weakness of reductionism inherent in the traditional science, and has relevance in explaining complex and chaotic organizations. However, since it has been developed from natural sciences of the West, it manifested philosophical limitations in applying to social sciences of the East. The results of the study reveals many commonalities and similiarities between Doism and chaos theory in many aspects. Especially Doism conotes various notions of chaos theory with such similarities as between the notion of emergence in chaos theory and dynamics of exchange, or the continuous flux, between nonlinear feedback loops and holism, between self-organization and the notion of the Nature, and between coevolution and the relativism of the paradox. This study results have implications for the improvement of the richness in studying organizations.