Emergence the creation of structures organizations and social entities is increasingly important but it can only be understood by integrating research from dozens of disciplines this book accomplishes that goal by providing the most complete set of emergents ever published and introducing a discipline of emergence moreover it focuses on a common type of emergence that has until now been unidentified namely emergence that is intentional called generative emergence the book reveals . Emergence the creation of structures organizations and social entities is increasingly important but it can only be understood by integrating research from dozens of disciplines this book. Generative emergence a new discipline of organizational entrepreneurial and social innovation benyamin lichtenstein phd oxford university press 2014 note uncorrected version please do not cite except with permission from author chapter 2 protypes of emergence the goal of this chapter is to map out a discipline of emergence to begin it is. Emergence the creation of structures organizations and social entities is increasingly important but it can only be understood by integrating research from dozens of disciplines this book. New book by benyamin lichtenstein culminating more than 30 years of research into evolution complexity science organizing and entrepreneurship this book provides insights to scholars who are increasingly using emergence to explain social phenomena in addition to providing the first comprehensive definition and framework for understanding emergence it is the first publication of data