Complexity Leadership: Part 1: Conceptual Foundations (Hc)

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.;pt. 1. Conceptual foundations.; Avail. in paper. Publisher Marketing: 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. Contributor Bio:  Marion, Russ "Russ Marion" grew up in North Carolina and received four degrees in education and educational administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a public school teacher, a school principal, and a program director in the North Carolina Department of Education. He is currently a professor of educational leadership at Clemson University in South Carolina where he teaches several courses in organizational theory. Marion's research interests include organizational theory, school finance and student achievement, and nonlinear social dynamics. He has published articles on organizational theory and finance in journals such as "Journal of Education Finance, The British Journal of Management in Education, Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management," and "The Journal of School Leadership." In addition to this text, Russ Marion has also written "The Edge of Organization: Chaos and Complexity Theories of Formal Social Systems."