Abstract:
The author’s intent in this paper is to discuss new methods for conducting
research on and connecting the works of chaos and complexity theorists with
interpretive, hermeneutical, and phenomenological theorists as a multiple-method
mode of inquiry. He proposes a methodological design that incorporates a
recursive process of phenomenological reduction to find connectedness and
generate shared meanings among the research performed by leadership theorists.
He also provides an emergent metanarrative method for presenting research
results, using a complexity-based, interpretive framework.
