ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to ground a theory of the emergence of social institutions from human conversational interactions in a theory of the entification and evolution of order in physical sciences. There are methodologies galore, and some heuristics, to discover, make, and deal with organizational problems, but few "causal explanations" of organizational behavior, grounded in nature, to which to refer when dealing with organizational problems. The inanimate world is said to be governed by the "laws" of physics and chemistry discoverable by the hard sciences. Theory now suggests that far from being negentropic, living things, including man and society, are actually accelerators of entropy production and of the dissipation of free energy. Conversations between humans make classifications, definitions, and distinctions—they create realities and values. All institutional change dissipates lifetime, but if conditions in the field allow and there is free lifetime available, the emergence of new institutions is theorized to be the preferred route toward maximizing entropy production.
