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Clinical Organizational Science: an integrative framework for structural intervention in complex organizations
Makoto Yamanaka1, Masaya Nakamori1
1DroR Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Frontiers in Psychology
|May 18, 2026
Summary
Organizations often fail to sustain transformation. Clinical Organizational Science (COS) offers a new framework, viewing stability as dynamic and proposing structural interventions for lasting change.
Area of Science:
- Integrates complexity science, neuroscience, organizational psychology, and behavioral science.
- Establishes Clinical Organizational Science (COS) as a novel framework.
Background:
- Organizations struggle with sustained transformation despite significant investments.
- Current models overlook the active, dynamic nature of organizational stability.
Purpose of the Study:
- Introduce Clinical Organizational Science (COS) to explain stability generation.
- Specify mechanisms for inducing durable organizational transformation.
- Propose structured intervention techniques grounded in COS.
Main Methods:
- Develop a multilevel mechanistic account (emergence bridge) linking habituation to attractor transition.
- Present three intervention techniques: Field Gradient Theory, Loop Conversion Design, and Neural Base Design.
- Discuss illustrative patterns across behavioral, relational, and organizational levels.
Main Results:
- COS repositions transformation as a structural intervention problem, not just behavioral change.
- Identifies specific structural mechanisms for organizational stability and transformation.
- Proposes testable propositions and directions for empirical investigation.
Conclusions:
- COS provides a theoretically grounded framework for understanding and inducing organizational transformation.
- The proposed intervention techniques offer practical applications for durable change.
- An ethics framework for neuroscience-informed interventions is presented.
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