ABSTRACT
So, Marion argues that form, or pattern, in an industry is fundamentally caused by self-organizing interaction between organizational entities at a local level, constrained by the laws of physics and driven by non-deliberate, purposeless need to operate mutually on the environment in order to survive. This is essentially the same as Kauffman’s argument in relation to biological evolution. Marion describes this process of self-organization in terms that are consistent with what we have been calling Transformative Teleology: the interaction between the diverse entities produces unpredictable new patterns. He then combines self-organization with non-deliberate teleology; that is, a version of the struggle for survival that is a central feature of Adaptionist Teleology.
