Although the argument so far is fundamentally based on chemical or biological systems, we argue it also applicable to the organisation as an open system. It is suggested by Leifer (1989) that the net resource used by an organisation can be viewed as being divided into two parts. First is that concerned with the maintenance of the internal environment, and second, that which is transacted with the external environment. The former is treated as the change of entropy due to necessary maintenance and support processes (d_iS), which is always positive due to the nature of indirect costs, and the latter as the change of entropy in the input-transformation-output process (d_eS), which may be positive or negative (e.g. a firm may experience profit or loss). It is suggested, further, that d_iS refers to all the activities that are necessary to keep the organisation maintained and supported (e.g. management, administration, research and development, etc.) and d_eS refers to all the activities where there is interaction with the environment (e.g. purchasing, selling, recruiting, etc.) and production of products and services. We further maintain that, in order for the organisation to remain viable, the flow component of entropy must be negative and greater in magnitude than that of the maintenance and support component since the support and maintenance activities always result in a net drain or loss to the organisation due to the exploitation of resources, but the input-transformation-output process (i.e. production and sales activities) may result in a net gain for the organisation if its earning is greater than its cost (Leifer, 1989). In summary, we conclude, albeit perhaps at a metaphorical level, that in order for an organisation to maintain its order it must be in a non-equilibrium state.