<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper reveals preconditions for the emergence of clusters as self-organisation based industrial systems in a context, in which cooperation traditions are insufficiently developed. These preconditions reflect the principles of the emergence of self-organising complex adaptive systems that are analysed in the complexity theory. Those principles are based on the initiation of non-equilibrium and its purposeful direction into the creation of a new order. This paper highlights the main external and internal tensions that influence informal or formal clustering of enterprises, while various change agents perform different roles making self-organising processes to occur.</p></abstract>

This paper reveals preconditions for the emergence of clusters as self-organisation based industrial systems in a context, in which cooperation traditions are insufficiently developed. These preconditions reflect the principles of the emergence of self-organising complex adaptive systems that are analysed in the complexity theory. Those principles are based on the initiation of non-equilibrium and its purposeful direction into the creation of a new order. This paper highlights the main external and internal tensions that influence informal or formal clustering of enterprises, while various change agents perform different roles making self-organising processes to occur.

Preconditions for Emergence of Lithuanian Clusters: from Informal Cooperation to Its Legitimation

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research

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This paper reveals preconditions for the emergence of clusters as self-organisation based industrial systems in a context, in which cooperation traditions are...

Preconditions for Emergence of Lithuanian Clusters: from Informal Cooperation to Its Legitimation

Published Online: Jul 01, 2017

Page range: 37 - 56

Received: Apr 03, 2017

Accepted: May 30, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mosr-2017-0003

Keywords
clusters, complex adaptive systems, industrial systems, self-organisation, cluster emergence

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Preconditions for Emergence of Lithuanian Clusters: from Informal Cooperation to Its Legitimation

Published Online: Jul 01, 2017

Page range: 37 - 56

Received: Apr 03, 2017

Accepted: May 30, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mosr-2017-0003

Keywordsclusters, complex adaptive systems, industrial systems, self-organisation, cluster emergence

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
clusters, complex adaptive systems, industrial systems, self-organisation, cluster emergence