Dear Colleague
I'm pleased to inform you that the latest issue (Volume 8 Issue 4) of the international journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO - http://emergence.org) is now available. The issue contains:
Volume 8 Number 4, 2006
Special Issue: Complexity & Leadership
Editors: Jeffrey A. Goldstein & James K. Hazy
Special Issue Editorial
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: From Complexity to Leadership and Back to Complexity
Jeffrey A. Goldstein & James K. Hazy
General Papers
Practitioner
Complexity Leadership Theory: An Interactive Perspective On Leading in Complex Adaptive Systems
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion, Anson Seers, James Douglas Orton, & Craig Schreiber
Generative Leadership: Nurturing Innovation in Complex Systems
Gita Surie & James K. Hazy
Academic
Towards an Understanding of Membership and Leadership in Youth Organizations: Sudden Changes in Average Participation Due to the Behavior of One Individual
Kirstin C. Phelps & Alfred W. Hubler
The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach
Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone
The Role of Leadership: What Management Science Can Give Back to the Study of Complex Systems
Daniel Solow & Joseph G. Szmerekovsky
Leadership Style as an Enabler of Organizational Complex Functioning
Craig Schreiber & Kathleen M. Carley
Complexity and Philosophy
Leadership as the Promise of Simplification
Nathan Harter
Classic Paper
The Functions of the Executive Chapter 2: The Individual and Organization
Chester I. Barnard (with an introduction by Jeffrey A. Goldstein & James K. Hazy)
Forum
Yet More Lessons from Complexity - Unity: The Key of Peace
Carlos E. Puente
Book Reviews
A Review of Systemic Planning: Principles and Methodology for Planning in a Complex World
Bruce McKenzie
A Review of The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics
Ken Baskin
A Review of Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Pattern
Igor Matutinovic
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Kind regards
Kurt Richardson
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