The concern in both cases is to allow the ecology of organizational relations to evolve
and survive. Just as natural ecologists are concerned about the disastrous effects of industrial
pollution on the natural world, Trist and his successors believe that our organizational
ecology is menaced by highly individualistic lines of action that threaten to make the social
world completely unmanageable. The concept of organizational ecology is thus marshaled as
a new and creative way of thinking and acting in relation to these problems.