ABSTRACT
So far, we have distinguished between four types of teleological cause and we will be using these to make distinctions between various ways of understanding organizations, including various approaches to selforganization/emergence as ways of thinking about organizations. These four kinds of teleology are:
1 Natural Law Teleology and efficient cause in which movement is perfectly regular and predictable and the parts add up to a whole. This teleology survives in modern times as an unreflected assumption about the nature of reality and as an assumption of the existence of optimal states. Everything that is possible is already given and there is no change under the sun.
