There's a very nice systemic way of seeing this 'budding off' procees:

https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/08/03/boundary-critique-and-its-implications-for-conflict-prevention-midgley-and-pinzon-20110/?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer588da&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com

Schismogensis goes back to Batesom of course - this piece is a nice tour of how it works (and it does go back to spies of course, Bateson's time at the birth of the CIA): https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/01/26/mary-catherine-bateson-systems-thinker-edge-org/