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This paper carries out an exercise of connection of social components such as economy and organizations with elements of the natural sciences such as ecology and the environment, through the use of interdisciplinarity when applying tools that seek their interrelationship such as entropy or general systems theory. The information obtained derives from the literature review, being these secondary sources specialized in the proposed themes from a holistic perspective. The objective of this work is to establish the appropriate connection of the fields of interest in a framework where there is great concern nowadays, as a result of a wealth of observations and experiences recorded by humanity, reason why the concept of sustainable development is present and strengthened at the current level. With this, it is possible to concatenate and understand that organizations (key units of economic development) and human beings have a role within the system, that they are part of the biotic and abiotic environment, that they maintain energy flows with accumulated impacts to the environment and. for this reason, the knowledge and development of improvement mechanisms turns out to be imperative in the present.
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