Digital Leadership and Sustainable School Improvement—A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Future Research

Digital Leadership in an Ever-Changing World: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Challenges

“…Cluster 1 is characterized by keywords such as leadership, technology, communication, and education. This indicates that the industry sectors associated with this cluster are education and technology, where digital leadership plays a fundamental role in the implementation of technology in the educational field [4,80,81].…”

“…In today's business world, digital leadership has become crucial due to the rapid digital transformation and the growing importance of technology in all areas of an organization [1][2][3]. It involves leaders being able to adapt and lead in a digital environment, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by recent technologies and facing the challenges they present [4,5]. In addition to having technical skills, skills in change management, effective communication, and strategic decision making are needed [6][7][8][9].…”

Elevating Teachers’ Professional Digital Competence: Synergies of Principals’ Instructional E-Supervision, Technology Leadership and Digital Culture for Educational Excellence in Digital-Savvy Era

“…Additionally, Chang [98] articulates that the success indicators of technology leadership include the capacity to formulate a vision, provide professional development, support infrastructure, facilitate communication, and conduct evaluations. Nevertheless, the latest research inquiry concentrating on evaluating the impact of global digital leadership in improving technology integration in schools, specifically among teachers, is based on the ISTE-A (International Society for Technology in Education for Administrator) standards, highlighting its influence on enhancing digital learning culture and teachers' technology integration skills [18,33,44,60,[99][100][101].…”

“…The evaluation of the principal's technology leadership in this study adhered to the five recent standards outlined by the International Society for Technology in Education for Administrators [16]. Widely employed in research studies, these standards have been used to gauge their impact on teachers' ICT integration capabilities or, more broadly, teachers' digital competencies (as evident in prior studies [6,9,30,34,44,95,101] and in the context of learning organizations as integral to school culture [120]. To assess this, teachers were required to evaluate the extent to which the principal, as a technology leader, embodied the five dimensions of the ISTE-A standard: equity and citizenship advocate, visionary planner, empowering leader, systems designer, and connected learner.…”

Bibliometrics Analysis of Digital Leadership Research

“…Cluster 3 Hypothesis: The level of digital innovation within an organization positively influences leadership practices and contributes to sustainable performance outcomes. Helpful resources for building this hypothesis are Mollah et al (2023), Shin et al (2023), Quaquebeke and Gerpott (2023), Karakose and Tülübaş (2023), Zulu et al (2023), Karakose et al (2022), Niu et al (2022), Khaw, et al (2022), Erhan et al (2022), Baglama et al (2022), andBenitez et al (2022).…”