"Complexly structured, non-additive behavior emerges out of interactive networks.... Interactive agents unite in an ordered state of sorts, and the behavior of the resulting whole is more than the sum of individual behaviors. Ordered states... [arise] … when a unit adapts its individual behaviors to accommodate the behaviors of units with which it interacts. Poincare observed this phenomenon mathematically among colliding particles, which impart some of their resonance to each other leading to a degree of synchronized resonance. Interacting people and organizations tend similarly to adjust their behaviors and worldviews to accommodate others with whom they interact. Networks with complex chains of interaction allow large systems to correlate, or self-order."
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Marion, R. and J. Bacon. 2000. "Organizational Extinction and Complex Systems."” Emergence 1(4). p. 75. As cited in: Begun, James W., Brenda Zimmerman, and Kevin Dooley. "Health care organizations as complex adaptive systems." Advances in health care organization theory 253 (2003): 288.
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