Organization operating system (OOS): Unifying foundation for organization studies

In this age of computers, robotics and artificial intelligence there is an underlying hidden system which holds the key to every service that is realized - The Operating System. It manages, the physical resources, knowledge resources, external interaction, resolves conflicts and threats as well to create value. It is not difficult to realize that it is modeled on a human being, and the attempt to replace humans is the most sought-after intellectual objective, because it provides greater flexibility without problems of disagreement or limitations of fatigue, ageing in a general sense though there are other limitations of obsolescence, failures or wear and tear. The same operating systems are customized to manage innumerable specialized activities, competencies and capabilities, complex physical and intelligent functions including act, move or behave like a human or an animal. Expanding the scope further, can an automated system run a complex organization completely, perhaps not, because an organization is what it is because of participation by individuals, although many business organizations do run automated mechanical activities without much human intervention. A more important question would be to ask if we have an organizational operating system, at least to make it run seamlessly as an integrated entity. It has not been so in decades of Management and Organization Studies research, although the studies have discovered significant organizational dimensions for exploration. The theme of this article is to primarily understand different facets of organization studies like a user of an automation system unaware of the presence and role of its operating system much like the organization research seem indifferent to realizing the concept of an Organizational Operating System (OOS) being experiential and issue resolution oriented. At the end, we put forward a conceptual integration of organizational phenomena around an Organizational Operating System (OOS).