Emergence

Jochen Koch

Chapter 2.11 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 146-150 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In strategy research, emergence refers to two different (but often not differentiated, because also intertwined) meanings and implications: Emergent strategies are not planned but realized strategies and they refer to something unexpected, coincidental, and serendipitous, i.e., the emergence of something new that was (at least partially) not foreseen or expected. In this vein, emergence is a central concept of the strategy process lens, while S-A-P research has primarily focused on those practices that have explicit and identifiable strategic consequences. A stronger consideration of the concept of emergence opens up possibilities for deepening a practice-based understanding of strategically relevant actions. The concept of emergence also represents a plea against an under-complex and reductionist idea of the micro-foundations of strategy research.

Keywords: Emergence; Micro-macro link; Complexity; Non-reducibility; Serendipity; Consequentiality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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