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Exploring dynamics of emergence
Author(s) -
Huaxia Zhang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.845
Subject(s) - dynamics (music) , macro , edge of chaos , property (philosophy) , subject (documents) , computer science , system dynamics , epistemology , sociology , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , philosophy , library science , programming language
The British emergentists have their pros and cons in the discussion of emergence. They succeeded in expressing the basic characteristics of emergence, but failed to explain how and why a property became emergence. So, the main subject of studying emergence is to explore the dynamics at present. This article redescribes the concept of emergence and proposes the concept of dynamics of emergence to explain how emergence comes into being. The dynamics of emergence can be divided into two parts: micro‐dynamics and macro‐dynamics. The former deals with the emergence coming from the interaction of pre‐existing components of a system through their local interaction, bifurcation and iterative effect going to global pattern, while the latter discusses what the macro conditions and environments of emergence are, how systems adapt to the environment and how the environment selects systems at the edge of chaos. This article also points out that the dynamics of emergence has important implication in the research of organizations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.