Abstract Ponders the appropriate justification logic for management studies in light of the failure of positivism, relativism, &

postmodernism. After elaborating on these failures, complexity science is drawn on to define a modern logic-in-use. Complexity & (mostly French) postmodernist ontologies are then merged, highlighting coevolutionary agent behaviors as the basis of the nonlinearities confronting new management epistemology & the inappropriate ontological warping effects of math modeling. Attention turns to constructing an appropriate justification logic to underlie truth claims & beliefs, beginning with a look at some philosophical views on the issue & moving into what is seen as a more accurate & suitable interpretation of Mohr's (1982) process theory. This leads to an agent-based computational modeling method by which truth claims can be centered on transcendental realist causal analyses of coevolutionary nonlinear organizational phenomena. The method is based in Siggelkow's (2002) case-style narrative & Aristotle's material, final, formal, & efficient causes. It is concluded that the modern normal science of complexity can handle coevolutionary, nonlinear phenomena, which characterize new economics & organizational phenomena. Further, postmodern ontology reflects the connectionist, normal science ontology on which complexity science is based. A call is made to bring March & Suttons's (1997) two ontological worlds of management research together, & eight objectives met by agent-based models are delineated as a way to show how this is done. 222 References. Adapted from the source document.