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...

A volume in Leadership HorizonsSeries Editor Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska-LincolnFounding Editor James R. Meindl, State University of New York at BuffaloThis book introduces leadership and organizational scholars to the potential of complexityscience for broadening leadership study beyond its traditional focus on leaders' actions andinfluence, to a consideration of leadership as a broader, dynamically and interactive organizingprocess. The book offers a primer on complexity science and its applications to organizationstudies, and compares the logics of complexity science with those...

Leaders and followers live in a relational world-a world in which leadership occurs in complex webs of relationships and dynamically changing contexts. Despite this, our theories of leadership are grounded in assumptions of individuality and linear causality. If we are to advance understandings of leadership that have more relevance to the world of practice, we need to embed issues of relationality into leadership studies. This volume addresses this issue by bringing together, for the first time, a set of prominent scholars from different paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives to engage...