a new discipline of organizational, entrepreneurial and social innovation /
Benyamin Lichtenstein
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index
Why emergence -- Prototypes of emergence -- Methods for studying emergence : 15 fields of complexity science -- Defining emergence and generative emergence -- Types of emergence studies -- Dissipative structures -- Applications to organizations -- Introducing dynamic states -- Outcomes of generative emergence -- Introducing the five-phase process model of generative emergence -- Phase 2 : Stress & experiments -- Phase 3 : Amplification and critical events -- Phase 4 : New order through recombination -- Phase 5 : Stabilizing feedback -- Cycles of emergence -- Cycles of re-emergence -- Boundaries of emergence, and beyond the boundaries -- Enacting emergence
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'Generative Emergence' provides insight into the non-linear dynamics that lead to organizational emergence through the use of complexity sciences. The book explores how the model of generative emergence could be applied to enact emergence within and across organizations