Complexity Leadership: Part 1: Conceptual Foundations (PB) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593117955)

A volume in Leadership Horizons Series Editor Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Founding Editor James R. Meindl, State University of New York at Buffalo This book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potential 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.

Author: Mary Uhl-Bien
ISBN-10: 1593117957
ISBN-13: 9781593117955
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2007
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.91d