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40
Citations
100566
World Ranking
5150
National Ranking
2422

Overview

Mary Uhl-Bien is affiliated with Texas Christian University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research covers several subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Business and International Management.

Their recent academic output includes notable papers such as Complexity Leadership and Followership: Changed Leadership in a Changed World (2021) published in the Journal of Change Management, Complexity and COVID-19: Leadership and Followership in a Complex World (2021) in the Journal of Management Studies, Complexity Leadership in the Nursing Context (2020) appearing in Nursing Administration Quarterly, and What do managers value in the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship? Identification and measurement of the manager's perspective of LMX (MLMX) (2022) published in the Journal of Business Research. Another relevant paper where they are noted is Changing Leadership in Changing Times (2021) in the Journal of Change Management.

Mary Uhl-Bien's work engages extensively with topics including Management and Organizational Studies, Complex Systems and Decision Making, Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies, Chaos, Complexity, and Education, Organizational Learning and Leadership, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Uhl-Bien include Melissa K. Carsten, A. Erin Bass, Ivana Milošević, John M. Maslyn, and Stewart Clegg. These collaborations underscore ongoing research partnerships primarily in the fields of organizational leadership and complexity.

The venues where Mary Uhl-Bien most frequently publishes include the Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Change Management, Journal of Management Studies, Nursing Administration Quarterly, and Journal of Business Research, demonstrating a focus on management and leadership scholarship.

Best Publications

  • Building theories from case study research.

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Relationship-based approach to leadership: Development of leader-member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25 years: Applying a multi-level multi-domain perspective

    George B. Graen;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era !

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Russ Marion;Bill McKelvey

  • Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing

    Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Followership theory: A review and research agenda ☆

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Ronald E. Riggio;Kevin B. Lowe;Melissa K. Carsten

  • Leadership in complex organizations

    Russ Marion;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Exploring social constructions of followership: A qualitative study

    Melissa K. Carsten;Mary Uhl-Bien;Bradley J. West;Jaime L. Patera

  • Leader–member exchange and its dimensions: Effects of self-effort and other's effort on relationship quality.

    John M. Maslyn;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • A framework for examining leadership in extreme contexts

    Sean T. Hannah;Mary Uhl-Bien;Bruce J. Avolio;Fabrice L. Cavarretta

  • Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing: A Meso Model

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Russ Marion

  • The Transformation of Professionals into Self-Managing and Partially Self-Designing Contributors: Toward a Theory of Leadership-Making

    George B. Graen;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Leadership for organizational adaptability: A theoretical synthesis and integrative framework.

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Michael Arena

  • The SAGE Handbook of Leadership

    Alan Bryman;David Collinson;Keith Grint;Brad Jackson

  • Reciprocity in Manager-Subordinate Relationships: Components, Configurations, and Outcomes

    Mary Uhl-Bien;John M. Maslyn

  • Organizational discourse analysis (ODA): Examining leadership as a relational process

    Gail T. Fairhurst;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Complexity leadership: Enabling people and organizations for adaptability.

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Michael Arena

  • Advancing relational leadership research: A dialogue among perspectives

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Sonia M. Ospina

  • Examining the Link Between Leader Member Exchange and Subordinate Performance: The Role of Task Analyzability and Variety as Moderators

    Kenneth J. Dunegan;Dennis Duchon;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • Individual Self-Management: Analysis of Professionals' Self-Managing Activities in Functional and Cross-Functional Work Teams

    Mary Uhl-Bien;George B. Graen

  • LMX and Subordinate Performance: The Moderating Effects of Task Characteristics

    Kenneth J. Dunegan;Mary Uhl-Bien;Dennis Duchon

Frequent Co-Authors

George B. Graen
George B. Graen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sean T. Hannah
Sean T. Hannah Wake Forest University
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University
Keith Grint
Keith Grint University of Warwick
Ronald E. Riggio
Ronald E. Riggio Claremont McKenna College
Peter D. Harms
Peter D. Harms University of Alabama
Deanne N. Den Hartog
Deanne N. Den Hartog University of Amsterdam
Alan Bryman
Alan Bryman University of Leicester
Bennett J. Tepper
Bennett J. Tepper The Ohio State University
William L. Gardner
William L. Gardner Texas Tech University

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