Towards operationalizing complexity leadership: How generative, administrative and community-building leadership practices enact organizational outcomes

Leadership

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-104

  Hazy, James K ^a,b   Uhl Bien, Mary ^c  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity leadership; emergence; entrepreneurial leadership; generative leadership; information gathering and using systems; ratcheting; strategic leadership; systemic leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921333807     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715013511483     Document Type: Article

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