Organizations as complex adaptive systems: …

Organizations as complex adaptive systems: implications ofComplexity Theory for leadership researchMarguerite Schneider , Mark Somers1 New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of management , University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, USAA bstractThis article contrasts the assumptions of General Systems Theory, the framework for much prior leadership research, with thoseof Complexity Theory, to further develop the latter's implications for the definition of leadership and the leadership process. Wepropose that leadership in a complex adaptive system (CAS) may affect the organization indirectly, through the mediatingvariables of organizational identity and social movements.

Organizations as complex adaptive systems: Implications of Complexity Theory for leadership research Marguerite Schneider ⁎, Mark Somers 1 New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Management, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, USA

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