Emergent organization
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| - | '''Social neuroscience''' is an interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding how [[biological system]]s implement social processes and [[behavior]], and to using biological concepts and methods to inform and refine theories of social processes and behavior. [[Humans]] are fundamentally a social species, rather than individualists. As such, [[Homo sapiens]] create [[emergent organization]]s beyond the individual—structures that range from dyads, families, and groups to cities, civilizations, and cultures. These emergent structures evolved hand in hand with [[neural]] and [[hormonal]] mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too survived to reproduce. The term "social neuroscience" can be traced to a publication entitled "Social Neuroscience Bulletin" that was published quarterly between 1988 and 1994. The term was subsequently popularized in an article by [[John Cacioppo]] and [[Gary Berntson]], published in [[the American Psychologist]] in 1992. Cacioppo and Berntson are considered as the legitimate fathers of social neuroscience. Still a young field, social neuroscience is closely related to [[affective neuroscience]] and [[cognitive neuroscience]], focusing on how the [[brain]] mediates [[social interaction]]s. | + | The term '''emergent organizations''' (alternatively '''emergent organisations''') first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference at [[University of Ghent]], [[Belgium]] in May, 1999. |
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| + | An [[Emergence|emergent]] [[organization]] differs from a traditional organization in that its existence spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic [[natural environment|environment]] or [[market place]], rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists. | ||
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| + | Emergent organizations and their dynamics pose interesting questions; for example, how does such an organization achieve closure and stability? | ||
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| + | Alternatively, [[James R. Taylor]] wrote in 2000 his seminal book, ''The Emergent Organization'', where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text. This idea concerns human organizations, but is consistent with [[Leibniz]] or [[Gabriel Tarde]]'s [[monadology]], or with [[Alfred North Whitehead]]'s [[process 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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| - | * [[Affective neuroscience]] | + | * [[Emergence]] |
| - | * [[Biocultural evolution]] | + | * [[Chaos theory]] |
| - | * [[Biological psychology]] | + | * [[Evolution]] |
| - | * [[Cognitive neuropsychology]] | + | * [[Natural selection]] |
| - | * [[Cognitive neuroscience]] | + | * [[Organizational behavior]] |
| - | * [[Emotion]] | + | * [[Organizational development]] |
| - | * [[Motor cognition]] | + | * [[Self-organizing system]] |
| - | * [[Neuroculture]] | + | |
| - | * [[Neuroeconomics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Neuroscience]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychiatry]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sociobiology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Social cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Social psychology]] | + | |
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The term emergent organizations (alternatively emergent organisations) first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference at University of Ghent, Belgium in May, 1999.
An emergent organization differs from a traditional organization in that its existence spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place, rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists.
Emergent organizations and their dynamics pose interesting questions; for example, how does such an organization achieve closure and stability?
Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization, where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text. This idea concerns human organizations, but is consistent with Leibniz or Gabriel Tarde's monadology, or with Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy, which explains the macro - both in human and non-human "societies" - from the processes taking place between its constituent parts.
See also
- Emergence
- Chaos theory
- Evolution
- Natural selection
- Organizational behavior
- Organizational development
- Self-organizing system
