Generative emergence : a new discipline of organizational, entrepreneurial and social innovation / Benyamin Lichtenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtenstein, Benyamin B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Management.

Technological innovations.

Organizational behavior.

Emergence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 469 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-938837-7

0-19-993360-X

OCLC:

884280112