Promoting learning and innovation in organizations through complexity leadership theory

IF 1.6 Q3 MANAGEMENT Team Performance Management Pub Date : 2016-08-03 DOI:10.1108/TPM-02-2016-0004
M. Mendes, Catarina Gomes, Pedro Marques-Quinteiro, P. Lind, Luís Curral
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Purpose Current organizations face a complex competitive landscape driven by globalization and technology that puts them in the course of a new economic age. This complexity stresses learning and innovation as fundamental mechanisms for organizational survival. This paper aims to propose that how learning and innovation emerge and affect organizational performance can be better understood through the complexity leadership theory. Design/methodology/approach The authors review literature on complexity leadership theory, learning and innovation in complex bureaucratic environments and then present reflections regarding how learning and innovation can be achieved through the interaction of three complexity leadership functions: adaptive, administrative and enabling. This conceptual framework suggests that individuals are in constant interaction, exchange information, influence each other and collectively produce emergent properties that promote effective learning and innovation. Findings We propose that learning and innovation can be better achieved in organizations if the complexity leadership theory is applied as an alternative to centralized forms of influence and control. Originality/value This paper presents a reflection on the benefits of the complexity leadership theory as an alternative framework to understand organizational leadership. Furthermore, this paper proposes that the complexity leadership theory is more adequate to generate learning and innovation in complex, fast-changing work environments.
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当前的组织面临着由全球化和技术驱动的复杂竞争格局,这使他们处于一个新的经济时代。这种复杂性强调学习和创新是组织生存的基本机制。本文旨在提出通过复杂性领导理论可以更好地理解学习和创新如何产生并影响组织绩效。作者回顾了复杂性领导理论、复杂官僚环境下的学习和创新等方面的文献,然后就如何通过适应性、管理和使能这三种复杂性领导功能的相互作用来实现学习和创新提出了思考。这一概念框架表明,个体处于不断的互动中,交换信息,相互影响,共同产生促进有效学习和创新的涌现属性。研究结果表明,如果将复杂性领导理论应用于组织中,可以更好地实现学习和创新,而不是集中的影响和控制形式。本文对复杂性领导理论作为理解组织领导的另一种框架的好处进行了反思。此外,本文提出复杂性领导理论更适合在复杂、快速变化的工作环境中产生学习和创新。
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期刊介绍: This international journal contributes to the successful implementation and development of work teams and team-based organizations by providing a forum for sharing experience and learning to stimulate thought and transfer of ideas. It seeks to bridge the gap between research and practice by publishing articles where the claims are evidence-based and the conclusions have practical value. Effective teams form the heart of every successful organization. But team management is one of the hardest challenges faced by managers.
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