Holarchical Innovation Teams: Philosophy

Abstract

This paper builds upon “holarchical innovation teams: terms & definitions” in volume 13, issue 4 of Economia Aziendale Online by putting forth a philosophy for the nascent discipline of Holarchical Innovation Teams (HITs). HITs Philosophy is grounded in both a philosophy of self-actualization ethics or eudaimonism as developed by David L. Norton in Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976) and Democracy and Moral Development: A Politics of Virtue (1991), as well as the theory of combinatory systems as expressed by Piero Mella in The Combinatory Systems Theory: Understanding, Modeling and Simulating Collective Phenomena (2017). This paper provides a review of both Norton and Mella’s works in order to lay the foundations for a HITs Philosophy. It is left to future researchers and scholars of the HITs discipline to extend beyond this paper’s parameters to develop the HITs Philosophy.