Abstract This paper develops the ontological determination of the organization as a unity of decision-making of one identity over time. It builds on the ontological architecture of Existential Management, in which the organization is determined as a unity of decision-making reproduced by the meaning of the organization, while the meaning of the organization constitutes the constitutive principle of identity. On this basis, the paper addresses the question of what decision-making is in the ontological sense and under what conditions it can form the continuity of one identity. The paper establishes that decision-making cannot be understood as a sequence of acts, a process of choice, or the coordination of activities. Decision-making is determined as an ontological relation between the meaning of the organization as an open decision and concrete closed decisions, in which the organization is realized over time. The meaning of the organization does not determine the content of individual decisions but establishes the condition of their belonging to one identity. Closed decisions do not create this unity, but realize it, provided that they remain linked to the open decision of the meaning of the organization. On this basis, the paper distinguishes between the temporal sequence of decisions and the continuity of decision-making of one identity, formulates the discontinuity of decision-making as the interruption of the link between open and closed decision-making, and determines the ontological limit of the organization as the boundary beyond which closed decisions cease to be reproduced as decisions of one identity. At the same time, it develops the derived conditions for the reproduction of this unity through the distribution of meaning, the compatibility of interpretations, the social consciousness of the organization, integrative force, and entropic drift. The contribution of the paper consists in the explicit determination of decision-making as an ontological category of the organization, thereby closing the internal architecture of Existential Management. The organization is thus explained as a relation in which the open decision of the meaning of the organization remains present in closed decisions and thereby creates the continuity of one identity over time.
Rastislav Silný (Sat,) studied this question.