...Nadia Aslam; Umar Farooq Sahibzada Purpose The study seeks to propose a linear model by applying complexity theory and resource-based theory to investigate how hotels achieve competitive advantage and organizational performance during the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of hotel leaders...

... of conceptualising leadership in an exigency. Exige-stential leadership Existentialism Authentic leadership Complexity theory Crisis management Mabey and Morrell (2011) posit a challenge for leadership scholars: how to undertake diverse research whilst at the same time promoting dialogue with less...

...Alistair Moffat; Adrian McLean Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an intervention aimed at supporting the formation of a distinctive new culture in a post‐merger context. The work is informed by social constructionist thinking, complexity theory and draws on a semiotic approach...

... (2002) , Fairholm (2004) , Randall and Coakley (2007) , Styhre (2002) and Wheatley (2006) , amongst others, it is argued that current organisational development practices are informed by transactional, transformational, or complexity theory. Transactional changes within organisations are brought...

... --> Complexity theory Contingency planning Management technique The author, Gerard Fairtlough, is a biochemist who worked for the Shell Group for 25 years, with five of these years as CEO of Shell Chemicals UK and later as founder and CEO of Celltech. He has been advisor to governments and to academic...

...Peter Simpson Purpose This paper aims to help develop an understanding of how complexity theory may be applied to an understanding of leadership and organizational dynamics and contributes to the growing body of literature in the same subject. Design/methodology/approach Stacey's theory...

...Christine Vallaster Elizabeth   McMillan . Complexity, Organizations and Change . London : Routledge   2004 . 193 pp. , ISBN: 0‐415‐31447‐X (Hard cover)   £65 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Complexity theory Science Change management Chaos...