PREAMBLE TO A STRUCTURAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESISTANCE
PREAMBLE TO A STRUCTURAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESISTANCE (First doctrinal formulation) There are moments in the lives of certain individuals when reality ceases to appear as a mere succession of isolated events and begins to reveal itself as a network of deeply interconnected structures. Language, music, religion, culture, human movement, societies, political ideas, educational systems, and even life itself seem to respond, under different forms, to recurring organizational principles. This reflection emerges precisely from that intuition. Through years of observation, study, and intercultural experience, it gradually became evident that phenomena apparently unrelated shared similar structural patterns. Behind their superficial differences there appeared to exist common deep grammars: • organizational structures; • mechanisms of transmission; • dynamics of preservation; • and constant processes of degradation and reorganization. This perception did not arise solely from philo...