Complexity Leadership

Part 1: Conceptual Foundations

Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion, Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion, Mary Uhl-Bien

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781593117955
  9781593117962
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607526285
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

This book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potenial of complexity science for broadening leadership study beyond its traditional focus on leaders' actions and influence, to a consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and interactive organizing process. The book offers a primer on complexity science and its applications to organization studies, and compares the logics of complexity science with those underlying traditional leadership approaches. It describes methodological approaches for studying leadership from a complexity perspective, and offers examples of applications of complexity science to leadership theory. Chapters are written by top scholars in complexity and leadership theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Complexity Leadership
• Leadership Horizons
• Complexity Leadership
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• VOLUME INTRODUCTION
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 : COMPLEXITY THEORY FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
• 2 :CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCE
• 3 : DYNAMICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• 4 : PATHWAYS OF OPPORTUNITY IN DYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
• 5 : INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE COEVOLUTION
• 6 : DISPELLING THE MYTHS ABOUT LEADERSHIP
• 7 : BEYOND TRANSACTIONAL AND TRANSFORMATIONALLEADERSHIP
• 8 : COMPLEXITY LEADERSHIP THEORY
• 9 : EMERGENT STRATEGY VIA COMPLEXITY LEADERSHIP
• 10 : RESEARCH METHODS FOR STUDYING THE COMPLEXITY DYNAMICS OF LEADERSHIP
• 11 : NETWORK LEADERSHIP
• 12 : A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• 13 : LEADERSHIP OR LUCK?
• 14 : PATTERNS OF LEADERSHIP
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS