ABSTRACT
This volume continues the objective of many other works by the principal author. The most recent of these in this regard are Choudhury (2013a) and Choudhury and Silvia (2006), which establish the epistemological basis of a phenomenological model of the social economy. While this scholarly pursuit has addressed diverse areas of inquiry in the fields of economics, finance, science, and society, this chapter provides a new field of inquiry in these areas. This time it is in the field of organizational behaviour.
Epistemological inquiry on any theme being foundational in the area of a theory of knowledge and its logical and technical characterization, it explores fresh grounds of extended inquiry that may not be traditional. This research output follows this trajectory. It extends the epistemological inquiry of the social economy to the field of relevance of the divine law in scientific inquiry concerning the study of the specific area of organizational behaviour. But because of the vast domain of research inquiry that is thus opened up, the field of organizational behaviour is shown to be embedded in a theory of institutionalism or social contract. As such, the social interaction between the social economy, the embedded organizational perspective in the theory of institutionalism within the context of divine law and the world-system means this study covers new ground on the theme of God-conscious organization and the social economy.
