Adaptive behavior of organization – formal approach

This paper presents a formal discussion of an adaptive behavior of an organization, which is based on a three layer model of an organization, operation layer, organization layer and institution layer. The layer model is a specialization of the complex model of the general systems theory, which can be also considered as a modification of the viable systems model of the management cybernetics. The paper is concerned with an adaptive behavior of the institution layer. In order to pursue the formal approach the environmental input is analyzed into two components, structural component and probabilistic component. Furthermore, the adaptation is assumed to be planned on a normative model of the primary activity of the organization. Combining an organization goal with the analyzed input and the normative model a concept of adaptive goal is defined. Then, the adaptive goal yields two concepts, adaptive goal controllability and φ − α consistency, which are basis of theoretical results of this paper, internal model principle and variety matching.