Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 26
“A social aggregate which has chosen the fatal path of organic evolution must succumb to the same law of organic development to which all organisms are subject, namely greater and greater organization, increase of structure, greater differentiation, decrease of critical, personal, consciousness, loss of individual liberty, increased activity of the subconscious forces, falling into a state of somnambulism which can only be redeemed by revolution or by death.”
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
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Source: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 27
Source: The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981), p. 9
“[The law of evolution states that] complexity increases in terms of differentiation and structure.”
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 10 as cited in P.P. Kandelaars (1999) Economic Models of Material-Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis. p. 13
Source: "Differentiation and integration in complex organizations," 1967, p. 1
Attributed to Bertalanffy (1929) in: Julia Kristeva et al. (1971) Essays in Semiotics. p. 200
1920s
Source: The contingency theory of organizations, 2001, p. 23.

From Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art"), Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
As cited in: Joel Jay Kassiola (1990) The Death of Industrial Civilization. p. 48
Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974)

1920s, Freedom and its Obligations (1924)