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The philosophical world has proposed the concept of "mixbiotic society," in
which individuals with freedom and diverse values mix and mingle to recognize
their respective "fundamental incapability" each other and sublimate into
solidarity, toward solving the issues of social isolation and fragmentation.
Based on this concept, the mixbiotic society measures have been proposed to
evaluate dynamic communication patterns with reference to classification in
cellular automata and particle reaction-diffusion that simulate living
phenomena. In this paper, we applied these measures to five typologies of
organizational structure (Red: impulsive, Amber: adaptive, Orange: achievement,
Green: pluralistic, and Teal: evolutionary) and evaluated their features.
Specifically, we formed star, tree, tree+jumpers, tree+more jumpers, and
small-world type networks corresponding to each of five typologies, conducted
communication simulations on these networks, and calculated values for
mixbiotic society measures. The results showed that Teal organization has the
highest value of the mixism measure among mixbiotic society measures, i.e., it
balances similarity (mixing) and dissimilarity (mingling) in communication, and
is living and mixbiotic between order and chaos. Measures other than mixism
showed that in Teal organization, information is not concentrated in a central
leader and that communication takes place among various members. This
evaluation of organizational structures shows that the mixbiotic society
measures is also useful for assessing organizational change. In the future,
these measures will be used not only in business organizations, but also in
digital democratic organizations and platform cooperatives in conjunction with
information technology.
