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Anemergent organization (alternativelyemergent organisation) is anorganization that spontaneouslyemerges from and exists in a complex dynamicenvironment ormarket place, rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists.
The term first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual WashingtonEvolutionary Systems Conference atUniversity of Ghent,Belgium in May, 1999. Emergent organizations and their dynamics pose interesting questions; for example, how does such an organization achieve closure and stability?
Alternatively, as suggested byJames R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every in their 2000 seminal text,The Emergent Organization, all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.[1] This idea concerns human organizations, but is consistent withLeibniz orGabriel Tarde'smonadology, or withAlfred North Whitehead'sprocess philosophy, which explains the macro—both in human and non-human "societies"—from the processes taking place between its constituent parts.
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