Over five years ago, The Leadership Quarterly published a special issue on complexity to
advance a new way of thinking about leadership. In shifting attention away from the …

Complexity has become an important lens through which to view and understand the causes
and potencies of individual action and interaction in organizations as well as their meaning …

I propose a new theory of leadership in complex systems based upon computational
modeling approaches that have appeared to date. It is new in that it promises an approach …

When managers are confronted with the necessity to change their organization owing to a
turbulent and unpredictable environment, their change efforts are often not very successful …

Complexity science has the potential to explain emergence; unfortunately most
management applications of complexity rarely define emergence. We develop a typology …

One tradition within the complexity paradigm considers organisations as complex adaptive
systems in which autonomous individuals interact, often in complex ways with difficult to …

Although positions of greater responsibility imply greater workloads and consequences for
actions, the experience of emergent leaders might be different. People who gravitate toward …

Abstract Agent Based Modeling (ABM) has become a widespread approach to model
complex interactions. In this chapter after briefly summarizing some features of ABM the …

The article describes a case study of leadership within an expansion stage, venture capital
backed company over a fourteen month period. The study is unique in that it assumed a …

The study of nonlinear and complex adaptive systems is well supported by both agent-
based modeling (ABM) and dynamic network analysis (DNA) techniques. The increasing …