Leadership in the Digital Realm: What Are the Main Challenges?

Corte, Valentina Della; Gaudio, Giovanna Del; Sepe, Fabiana

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“…A digital enterprise is an organisation that has a clear digital vision, high investment in digitalisation with focus on factors such as innovation culture, organisational agility, and nurturing talent to drive and deliver digital strategy (Della Corte et al, 2019). New digital organisations have evolved with the development of social media and mobile networking, big data, cloud computing and embracing of fourth industrial revolution (Bongiorno, Rizzo, & Vaia, 2018).…”

Section: Digital Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The demands of digital disruption entail new skills and leadership capabilities to improve processes, engage talent and develop new value-added business models for organisations (Kane et al, 2015). Leadership capabilities and the operationalisation and implementation of digitalisation are important factors for enterprises to succeed with digital transformation (Della Corte et al, 2019).…”

Section: Leadership In the Digital Agementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Digital transformation requires competent leaders, who, with their knowledge and experience, would be able to drive the change to integrate technology and business organisations toward innovation and business transformation to achieve successful outcomes (Dahlström, Desmet, & Singer, 2017;World Economic Forum, 2018). Organisations that are digital leaders strive to develop new digital capabilities and are making significant changes to their strategy-making process and organisational culture (Della Corte, Del Gaudio, & Sepe, 2019). Leadership theory has been evolving from a modern, static leadership theory to increased recognition of the expansive resources and the organisational relationships involved in leadership practices (Raelin, 2016).…”

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Antecedents of Effective Digital Leadership of Enterprises in Asia Pacific

Karippur¹,

Balaramachandran²

2022

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Increasing awareness of digital transformation across Asia Pacific is putting a strong spotlight on how enterprises think of leadership and related key practices. The pace of transition to the new digital organisation creates even larger leadership gaps as most organisations have not moved rapidly enough to develop relevant leadership practices. With the support of literature, an analysis of related theories of transformational leadership, ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities are examined and the most suitable leadership attributes and practices for a digital enterprise is proposed. We test the proposed research model via a sample of leaders and senior managers from the Asia Pacific region. The results highlight the significant roles of leadership attributes, strategic priorities, organisational focus areas for exploration and digital governance practices for exploitation, in influencing effective digital leadership. The article reports valuable insights and relevant implications for leaders, enterprises, and researchers.

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Section: Digital Enterprisementioning

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Antecedents of Effective Digital Leadership of Enterprises in Asia Pacific

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Balaramachandran²

2022

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“…El Sawy et al [25] define digital leadership as the capacity of doing the right things for the strategic success of digitalisation for the enterprise and its business ecosystem. According to research, leadership abilities are essential to managing all of the mechanisms trigged by the turbulent business environment and because of it, leaders can make significant changes to the strategy-making process and organisational culture [26] A leader is tasked to lead in a state of constant change into an unknown digitalised future considering that also individuals and businesses are constantly changing [27].…”

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How Wise Companies Drive Digital Transformation

Schiuma

Schettini

Santarsiero

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Enterprises aimed at acquiring a sustainable competitive advantage in the Digital Era are challenged to develop a Transformative Digital Leadership marked by a set of abilities. The paper introduces the Digital Transformative Leadership Compass as an innovative framework to assess wise leaders’ characteristics driving organisational digital transformation in today’s complex business landscape. It identifies the critical abilities, attitudes, and behaviours distinguishing the profile of a transformative digital leader leading an organisation to continuously innovate and digitally evolve in the same way as the business landscape. This paper contributes to theory building by proposing an interpretative framework of critical abilities distinguishing a transformative digital leader of a transformative digital company. Furthermore, the paper provides practitioners with valuable insights and theoretical evidence on leadership practices in the digital era.

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“…Skilled and committed team creation appears as a requirement for leaders in the digital age [1], [4]. Leadership focus on digital business transformation is described as leading cultural change, strategy, leading network, and enabling.…”

Section: Grasping Trending Concepts Of the Digital Eramentioning

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Business Leaders’ Perception of Digital Transformation in Emerging Economies: On Leader and Technology Interplay

Kapucu¹

2021

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Same as the general public differently interprets the same phenomena in diverse cultures, leaders’ standpoints differ also. Because of unequal advancement and cultural diversity, a specific welfare level or geography perceives digital transformation that is radically disparate from others. In advanced economies, leaders comprehensively recognize the products and trending technologies of the digital era on a broader scale. But it is different in an emerging economy. Naturally, the factors such as the industry and the globalization of the companies matter, yet a survey in a widespread sector can help to project business leaders’ and managers’ perception of digital transformation and bring different judgments. Two questions come fore at this point: If business leaders focus on or are aware of the products and ideas of current technologies, and if they appropriately construe these ideas and products. In Turkey, leaders predominantly tend to identity digital transformation with social media, still! Although digital transformation is related to social media, it is not limited to it. There are state-of-the-art technologies, but in such geographies, leaders require time to possess digital and technological consciousness. In this new world order, leadership has reached a point that there is a need for ultimate leaders, who origins from the very elements of this disruptive environment and rises with distinguishing skills and epoch-making perspectives. On the other hand, learning and performance are indispensable parameters for leaders in times of digital transformation. This article underlines the significant factors that impact these parameters.

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Leadership in the Digital Realm: What Are the Main Challenges?

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Antecedents of Effective Digital Leadership of Enterprises in Asia Pacific

Antecedents of Effective Digital Leadership of Enterprises in Asia Pacific

How Wise Companies Drive Digital Transformation

Business Leaders’ Perception of Digital Transformation in Emerging Economies: On Leader and Technology Interplay

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