Complexity leadership theory and innovation: a new framework for innovation leadership
Description
The healthcare system is plagued with increasing cost and poor quality outcomes. A major contributing factor for these issues is that outdated leadership practices, such as leader-centricity, linear thinking, and poor readiness for innovation, are being used in healthcare organizations. Through a qualitative case study analysis of innovation implementation, a new framework of leadership was uncovered. This framework presented new characteristics of leaders that led to the successful implementation of an innovation. Characteristics uncovered included boundary spanning, risk taking, visioning, leveraging opportunity, adaptation, coordination of information flow, and facilitation. These characteristics describe how leaders throughout the system were able to influence information flow, relationships, connections, and organizational context to implement innovation.
Date Created
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2013
Agent
- Author (aut): Weberg, Daniel Robert
- Thesis advisor (ths): Fluery, Julie
- Thesis advisor (ths): Malloch, Kathy
- Committee member: Porter-O'Grady, Timothy
- Committee member: Hagler, Debra
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University