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What is Nonlinear Dynamics

Chapter 21
Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
Nonlinear systems are those for which the equations of motion include nonlinear terms in the evolving variables or their time derivatives. Prominent effects of nonlinearity is that it precludes the use of the superposition principle, meaning that the linear combination of any solutions to the system will not lead to another solution. With regard to linear systems there generally exists a complete set of simple solutions out of which all other solutions can be constructed through linear combination. This is never the case for nonlinear systems and there currently is no other tried and true method for finding solutions that work consistently. ( Charneski and Lodge, 2000 ).
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Innoveadership: Marrying Strategic Leadership with Complexity
Ahmet Hakan Yüksel (Işık University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch021
Abstract
Scholars in the field of management studies are not reticent about how lively is the correlation between leadership and innovation. Given the pervasiveness of mechanistic view of organizations in the last century, this correlation was supposed to be entertained by the leaders who possessed certain personal traits and displayed behavioral patterns relevant for their followers. However, in an age of interconnectedness, leadership calls for more than leaders are capable to afford. Leadership should be acknowledged as an inter-relational social component, which is inherently embedded in each and every social interaction in the organization. Innovation, therefore, is embodied in the sum of all the interaction. This conceptual chapter intends to merge leadership and innovation and coins the term innoveadership to demonstrate their intertwined nature. Innoveadership could be described as a conflation of constructs postulated by leading scholars in the field of leadership and management studies within the contextual climate of complexity thinking.
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