& ResearchPaper Exploring Dynamics of Emergence

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 organiz