ABSTRACT
Organizations are the intermediaries between individuals and markets, between humanity and society. But organizations have been pushed away from economic analysis, just as they were largely ignored by the study of sociology. Orgology proposes a discipline of study that stems from economics and sociology but is more systematic in examining the life of organizations: their creation at a chosen time in history, the forms they take, the strategies they deploy, the reasons for their successes and failures. So, orgology hurries past anecdotal stories and the inappropriateness of macro and micro-generalization to favour a reasoned examination of organizations and thereby generate more firmly established lessons in history. A sociological analysis is essential to understanding the passion and anguish of humanity, one's isolation despite a social world. The purpose of studies in orgology is neither to rediscover the lukewarm reproductive nature of social structures here and there, nor to discover the amazing combinatorial properties of endless individual social connections.
