Generative Emergence

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.

Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a faculty member in the Organizations and Social Change group. His research specialty is the study of emergence, the creation and re-creation of new ventures, organizations, and collaborations; he also is an expert of complexity science and how it can be applied to sustainability issues. He has published four books and more than 50 articles and chapters. Professor Lichtenstein is Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at U-Mass Boston; he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Enterprise, and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Policy in the McCormick School of Public Policy.

Chapter 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 and 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