Affiliations: Fordham University Gabelli Business School, New York, NY, USA
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Corresponding author: Nicholas C. Georgantzas, Professor, Management Systems, Director, System Dynamics
Advisory, Fordham University Gabelli Business School, 113 West 60th Street, Suite 617-D, New York, NY 10023-7484,
USA. Tel.: +1 917 667 4022; Fax: +1 212 765 5573; georgantzas@fordham.edu
Abstract: Politeia’s emergence and evolution into a high-technology human system might be our civilization’s highest technological achievement. Sporadic incidents in Homer’s works mark its initial emergence, while this self-managing human system’s cultural, economic and socio-political aspects tread to the Fall of 322 BCE. Looking at both its magnificent performance, when its self-governance was fully functional, and its brutal murder by the despotic, pseudo-aristocratic or swanky regime, allows comparing politeia’s collegial, spherical decision-making structure to the ubiquitous but highly problematic, in our neo-postmodern temporality, pyramidal hierarchy of central authority and power. Doing so unveils a business proposition toward collegial, dynamic interventions, which entail focusing on civic, ethical and moral ideals, as the means to creating in business and industry the conditions necessary for the emergence of politeia’s collegially spherical decision-making structure, an innovative act of high-technology self management.
