Guest Edited by: JEFFREY A. GOLDSTEIN, JAMES K. HAZY
Issue Articles
EDITORIAL
Editorial introduction to the special issue
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PRACTITIONER
Complexity leadership theory
Traditional, hierarchical views of leadership are less and less useful given the complexities of our modern world. Leadership theory must transition to new perspectives that account for the complex adaptive needs of organizations. In this paper, we p... Read More
with MARY UHL-BIEN RUSS MARION ANSON SEERS JAMES D. ORTON CRAIG SCHREIBER
PRACTITIONER
Generative leadership
This paper contributes a theoretical framework for generative leadership, a form of leadership that creates a context to stimulate innovation in complex systems. Our framework links theories of leadership with perspectives on innovation and complex s... Read More
with JAMES K. HAZY
ACADEMIC
Toward an understanding of membership and leadership in youth organizations
Peer pressure can induce sudden, unexpected changes in the behavior of a group. With agent-based simulations, we study the impact of one individual on the behavior of a social network of people. We find that an individual with the largest benefit dom... Read More
with ALFRED W. HUBLER
ACADEMIC
The role of leadership
In recent times, the study of complex systems and complex-systems thinking has influenced research and approaches to research in business. While business has benefited from this influence, this paper suggests that ideas from the study of management c... Read More
with JOSEPH G. SZMEREKOVSKY
ACADEMIC
Leadership style as an enabler of organizational complex functioning
The postmodern organization has a design paradox in which leaders are concerned with efficiency and control as well as complex functioning. Traditional leadership theory has limited applicability to postmodern organizations as it is mainly focused on... Read More
with KATHLEEN M. CARLEY
PHILOSOPHY
Leadership as the promise of simplification
Leadership can be understood as the promise of simplification in response to complexity, with simplicity and complexity expressing the bounds of an inescapable tension. As subjective complexity increases, human systems experience pressure to simplify... Read More
ACADEMIC
The functions of the executive
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FORUM
Yet more lessons from complexity—Unity
The last few decades have witnessed the development of a host of ideas aimed at understanding and predicting nature’s ever present complexity [1]. It is shown that such a work provides, through its detailed study of order and disorder, a suitab... Read More
BOOK REVIEW
A Review of "Systemic Planning: Principles and Methodology for Planning in a Complex World"
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BOOK REVIEW
A Review of "The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics"
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BOOK REVIEW
A Review of "Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Pattern"
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