Complex Systems Leadership Theory

Editors: James K. Hazy, Jeffrey Goldstein & Benyamin Lichtenstein

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. Complex Systems Leadership Theory: An Introduction
James K Hazy, Jeffrey A. Goldstein & Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

PART I: COMPLEXITY, EMERGENCE & LEADERSHIP

2. An Emerging Complexity Paradigm in Leadership Research
Peter Jennings & Kevin Dooley

3. Systems and Leadership: Coevolution or Mutual Evolution towards Complexity?
David R. Schwandt & David Szabla

4. A New Model for Emergence and its Leadership Implications
Jeffrey A. Goldstein

5. Leadership in the Four Stages of Emergence
Bill McKelvey & Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

6. Emergent Leadership: Getting Beyond Heroes & Scapegoats
Donde Ashmos Plowman and Dennis Duchon

7. Complexity Leadership Theory: An Interactive Perspective on Leading in Complex Adaptive Systems
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion, Anson Seers, James Douglas Orton & Craig Schreiber

8. Paradigmatic Influence and Leadership: The Perspectives of Complexity Theory and Bureaucracy Theory
Russ Marion & Mary Uhl-Bien

PART II: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF LEADERSHIP

9. Mathematical & Computational Models of Leadership: Past & Future
James K. Hazy, William Millhiser & Daniel Solow

10. Towards an Understanding of Membership and Leadership in Youth Organizations: Sudden Changes in Average Participation Due to the Behavior of One Individual
Kirstin C. Phelps & Alfred W. Hubler

11. The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach
Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone

12. Leadership Style as an Enabler of Organizational Complex Functioning
Craig Schreiber & Kathleen M. Carley

13. Bureaucratic Agents: Simulating Organizational Behavior and Hierarchical Decision-
making
Cosimo Spada

14. The Role of Leadership: What Management Science Can Give Back to the Study of Complex Systems
Daniel Solow & Joseph G. Szmerekorsky

PART II: METHODS, MODELS & METAPHORS

15. A Matrix of Complexity for Leadership: 14 Disciplines of Complex Systems Leadership Theory
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

16. The Paradox of Complex Organizations: Leadership as Integrated Influence
Carmen Panzar, James K. Hazy, Bill McKelvey & David R. Schwandt

17. Leadership and a Computational Model of Organizations
Kevin Dooley

18. Leadership as the Promise of Simplification
Nathan Harter

19. Generative Leadership: Nurturing Innovation in Complex Systems
Gita Surie & James K. Hazy

20. Towards Social Complexity View on Conflict, Communication and Leadership
Pekka Aula & Kalle Siira

21. Leaders’ Detection of Problematic Self-Organized Patterns in the Workplace
Pamela Buckle Henning & Sloane Dugan

AUTHOR INFORMATION


Reprinted Article from E:CO 8(4)**