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The story of fresh expressions in Britain uses a model developed by Benyamin Lichtenstein and Donde Plowman. The model describes four conditions for ‘new emergent order’ within an organization (2009, p. 620). The first, disequilibrium, occurs when a system’s behaviour is substantially disrupted. An outside threat or new activities within push the system beyond its existing and normally accepted range of behaviours. The second condition is amplifying actions. These enable a small fluctuation in one part of the system to bring unanticipated and substantial changes to the other parts. As information jumps channels, becomes amplified and moves quickly through the system, small changes can cascade unexpectedly.

The third condition is recombination/self-organization. When new behaviours are repeatedly amplified, the system may reach the limit of its capacity. At this threshold, it can either collapse or reorganize. Self-organization (or emergence) occurs when agents or resources within the system recombine in new patterns of interaction, which tend to improve the system’s functioning. The fourth condition is stabilizing feedback, which ‘dampens’ or slows amplification and prevents change spinning the system out of control.