An
emergent organization (alternatively
emergent organisation) is an
organization that 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. The term 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. Emergent organizations and their dynamics pose interesting questions; for example, how does such an organization achieve closure and stability?