Description
Book SynopsisHow do organizations become created? Entrepreneurship scholars have debated this question for decades, but only recently have they been able to gain insights into the non-linear dynamics that lead to organizational emergence, through the use of the complexity sciences. Written for social science researchers, Generative Emergence summarizes these literatures, including the first comprehensive review of each of the 15 complexity science disciplines. In doing so, the book makes a bold proposal for a discipline of Emergence, and explores one of its proposed fields, namely Generative Emergence. The book begins with a detailed summary of its underlying science, dissipative structures theory, and rigorously maps the processes of order creation discovered by that science to identify a 5-phase model of order creation in entrepreneurial ventures. The second half of the book presents the findings from an experimental study that tested the model in four fast-growth ventures through a year-long, we
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Why Emergence ; Chapter 2. Prototypes of Emergence ; Chapter 3. Methods for Studying Emergence - 15 Fields of Complexity Science ; Chapter 4. Defining Emergence and Generative Emergence ; Chapter 5. Types of Emergence Studies ; Chapter 6. Dissipative Structures ; Chapter 7. Applications to Organizations ; Chapter 8. Introducing Dynamic States ; Chapter 9. Outcomes of Generative Emergence ; Chapter 10. Introducing the Five-Phase Process Model Of Generative Emergence ; Chapter 11. Phase 2 - Stress & Experiments ; Chapter 12. Phase 3 - Amplification and Critical Events ; Chapter 13. Phase 4 - New Order through Recombination ; Chapter 14. Phase 5 - Stabilizing Feedback ; Chapter 15. Cycles of Emergence ; Chapter 16. Cycles of Re-Emergence ; Chapter 17. Boundaries of Emergence, and Beyond the Boundaries ; Chapter 18. Enacting Emergence
