02853nam a2200469I 4500 ovld002108167 UtOrBLW 20251029120816.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 170612s2017 enk o 001 0 eng d 9781786359148 (e-book) 9781787143135 (ePUB) UtOrBLW HM786 .E44 2017 KJU bicssc bicssc BUS085000 bisacsh bisacsh 308 Emergence / edited by Marc-David L. Seidel, Henrich R. Greve. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (380) pages. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 50 Includes index. Prelims -- Emergence : how novelty, growth, and formation shape organizations and their ecosystems -- Part I: Novelty -- Part II: Growth -- Part III: Formation. The recent growth in research on the topic of evolutionary novelties inspired this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations. While previous sociological work has done an admirable job of understanding selection and differentiation processes, it has widely ignored the origin of novelty and how it grows to form initial structures and practices. Emergence is an easy to understand intuitive concept, as it simply means that an object comes into existence or appearance, but it needs further unpacking as a description of a widespread social process. In this book, emergence is seen as a process that involves 1) the creation of novelty, 2) its growth to a salient size, and 3) its formation into a recognizable social object, process, or structure. Each step should be understood through theory and empirical work. Yet the theory of each step can differ from, though it may be related to, the theory of the other two. As a consequence, emergence is a much more complex research topic than is suggested by a single word and it is these complexities that are examined in this book. Print version record Organizational sociology. 57191 Organizational behavior. 57293 Business & Economics Organizational Behavior. bisacsh 57296 Organizational theory & behaviour. bicssc 57297 Greve, Henrich R., editor. 61481 Seidel, Marc-David, editor. 61482 9781786359155 Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 50. 57196 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X201750 52117 52117