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.