| Sumario: | Part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of systems science. Given that many successful businesses have moved from autonomous independent enterprises to building alliances and inter-organizational relationships, a renewed examination of negotiated order and a focus on the fluidity enabled by it is required. Under conditions of rapid change, maintaining an internally consistent set of rules—something that is vital to legal order—is inefficient and relatively ineffective. Systems of negotiated order are marked by situational coordination of interests, flexible definitions of desired end states, and spontaneous initiatives by interested stakeholders. The development of the Linux community and its negotiated system of self-governance is discussed, as are three other business examples that indicate how negotiated order might provide a platform for stakeholders to innovatively leverage the dynamics of the present environment.
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