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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Management Department Faculty Publications Management Department 1-1-2001 Leadership in Complex Organizations Russ Marion College of Ed ucation, C lemson University, C lemson, S C, marion2@ Mary Uhl-Bien University of N ebraska-Lincoln, mbien2@ Follow this and a itional works at : http:// /managementfacpub Part of the Management Sciences and Quantitative Metho s Commons Marion, Russ and Uhl-Bien, Mary, Leadership in Complex Organizations (2001). Managem ent Department Faculty P ublications. Paper 11. http:// /managementfacpub/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Management Department at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Management Department Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in The Leadership Quarterly 12:4 (2001), pp. 389-418; doi 10.1016/S1048- 9843(01)00092-3 Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. Used by permission. http:// /locate/leaqua Winner of the Center for Creative Leadership/Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award for 2001. Published online February 15, 2002. Leadership in complex organizations Russ Marion College of Education, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA (Corresponding author: marion2@ ) Mary Uhl-Bien University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Abstract This paper asks how complexity theory informs the role of leadership in organizations. Complexity theory is a science of complexly int