Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model
Entropy is a concept derived from Physics that has been used to describe natural and social systems’ structure and behavior. Applications of the concept in the social sciences so far have been largely limited to the disciplines of economics and sociology. In the current paper, the concept of entropy...
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| description | Entropy is a concept derived from Physics that has been used to describe natural and social systems’ structure and behavior. Applications of the concept in the social sciences so far have been largely limited to the disciplines of economics and sociology. In the current paper, the concept of entropy is applied to organizational citizenship behavior with implications for urban organizational sustainability. A heuristic is presented for analysing personal and organizational citizenship configurations and distributions within a given workforce that can lead to corporate entropy; and for allowing prescriptive remedial steps to be taken to manage the process, should entropy from this source threaten its sustainability and survival. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7ce7e7d049747928143208cdd30b9522022-12-22T01:57:21ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002016-12-01181245310.3390/e18120453e18120453Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical ModelDavid Coldwell0School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag1, Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South AfricaEntropy is a concept derived from Physics that has been used to describe natural and social systems’ structure and behavior. Applications of the concept in the social sciences so far have been largely limited to the disciplines of economics and sociology. In the current paper, the concept of entropy is applied to organizational citizenship behavior with implications for urban organizational sustainability. A heuristic is presented for analysing personal and organizational citizenship configurations and distributions within a given workforce that can lead to corporate entropy; and for allowing prescriptive remedial steps to be taken to manage the process, should entropy from this source threaten its sustainability and survival.http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/12/453entropyorganizational systemsorganizational entropyorganizational citizenship entropysustainability |
| spellingShingle | David Coldwell Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model Entropy entropy organizational systems organizational entropy organizational citizenship entropy sustainability |
| title | Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model |
| title_full | Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model |
| title_fullStr | Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model |
| title_short | Entropic Citizenship Behavior and Sustainability in Urban Organizations: Towards a Theoretical Model |
| title_sort | entropic citizenship behavior and sustainability in urban organizations towards a theoretical model |
| topic | entropy organizational systems organizational entropy organizational citizenship entropy sustainability |
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