Leadership and the choice of order: Complexity and hierarchical perspectives near the edge of chaos

By R. Osborn, J. G. Hunt. 2007

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The leadership of emergence: A complex systems leadership theory of emergence at successive organizational levels☆ (2009, background): “Rather than influence being directional, influence behaviors may be determined in some sense by their context (Osborn & Hunt, 2007).”
Organizing Ambiguity: A Grounded Theory of Leadership and Sensemaking Within Dangerous Contexts (2010, background): “Furthermore, complexity leadership theory allows us to think of leadership as a process that can occur from even the lowest levels of an organization’s hierarchy (Osborn & Hunt, 2007).”
Moderating role of subordinates' attitudes on transformational leadership and effectiveness: A multi-cultural and multi-level perspective. (2009, background): “…theories and levels of analysis, and ruling them out (along with ruling out mediation effects; see below), we are better able to understand the meso and multi-level phenomena of interest (see Hunt, 1991; Hunt & Ropo, 1998; Osborn & Hunt, 2007; Yammarino et al., 2005; Yammarino & Dansereau, 2008).”