ABSTRACT
Organizations are vehicles of collective solutions in what we call the public space. The reason people live in a disorganized world now more acutely than at any other time in history is because the public space in which people navigate has become hyper-vast and granular. It is traversed by multiple currents that polarize one's thoughts and actions in a manner both distinct and often contradictory, in what people will call the logics of action. The public space is the place where an organization's legitimacy is at stake. According to the Habermasian tradition, the emergence and development of the public space can be traced to the eighteenth century, a legacy passed down by the American and French revolutions. The gradual emergence of political and economic dimensions in the public space serves as a fairly reliable guide for distinguishing open societies from those that verge on totalitarianism.
