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The evolutionary organization as a complex adaptive system

Based on concepts of the complex adaptive system (CAS) from system theory and complexity studies, the authors characterize the CAS and investigate whether the CAS construct is transferrable to business organizations. A scale is developed to rate a business organization's similarity to a CAS. The call a business enterprise matching the criteria of a CAS an "evolutionary organization". Short case studies of three high-technology companies (Microsoft, Intel, and Netscape) lead to an evaluation of these companies as evolutionary organizations. Limits of the transferability of this method are noted.