Complexity Leadership

A volume in Leadership HorizonsSeries Editor Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska-LincolnFounding Editor James R. Meindl, State University of New York at BuffaloThis book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of complexityscience for broadening leadership study beyond i [...]
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A volume in Leadership HorizonsSeries Editor Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska-LincolnFounding Editor James R. Meindl, State University of New York at BuffaloThis book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of complexityscience for broadening leadership study beyond its traditional focus on leaders' actions andinfluence, to a consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and interactive organizingprocess. The book offers a primer on complexity science and its applications to organizationstudies, and compares the logics of complexity science with those underlying traditionalleadership approaches. It describes methodological approaches for studying leadership from acomplexity perspective, and offers examples of applications of complexity science to leadershiptheory. Chapters are written by top scholars in complexity and leadership theory.