Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0
This paper attempts to address and critically examine a current concept of leadership in business studies: digital leadership. Researchers often say that this is a new leadership style and that there is a necessity for such a new style because the entrepreneurial environment has changed considerably...
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University of Primorska
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| description | This paper attempts to address and critically examine a current concept of leadership in business studies: digital leadership. Researchers often say that this is a new leadership style and that there is a necessity for such a new style because the entrepreneurial environment has changed considerably with digitisation, but also with Industry 4.0, which to a certain extent coincides with digitisation, and the concept of a so-called vuca (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world. The conclusion drawn here could be summarised as follows: a changed business environment forces companies to react, namely with a new way of leading – digital leadership. This study will show that such a concept is by no means new, as research claims, but rather hasbeeninexistence formorethan150years. What many researchers understand by digital leadership, apart from the demand for driving forward digitisation, coincides with the leadership principle introduced by Prussian General Moltke, known as ‘mission-type tactics.’ One of the aims of this paper is to demonstrate this. It will also be shown that digital leadership, in contrast to transformational leadership, can be acquired and that digital leadership cannot be classified in the opposition to transformational or transactional leadership, but is rather to be held and understood as a third variant. Only a prescriptive method based on under-standing seems to be a suitable method. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1ab65f5df9d443c689790af0efd57dea2022-12-21T23:53:05ZengUniversity of PrimorskaManaging Global Transitions1854-69352021-09-0119320922610.26493/1854-6935.19.209-226Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0Christoph Bach0Rozália Sulíková1Comenius University in BratislavaComenius University in BratislavaThis paper attempts to address and critically examine a current concept of leadership in business studies: digital leadership. Researchers often say that this is a new leadership style and that there is a necessity for such a new style because the entrepreneurial environment has changed considerably with digitisation, but also with Industry 4.0, which to a certain extent coincides with digitisation, and the concept of a so-called vuca (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world. The conclusion drawn here could be summarised as follows: a changed business environment forces companies to react, namely with a new way of leading – digital leadership. This study will show that such a concept is by no means new, as research claims, but rather hasbeeninexistence formorethan150years. What many researchers understand by digital leadership, apart from the demand for driving forward digitisation, coincides with the leadership principle introduced by Prussian General Moltke, known as ‘mission-type tactics.’ One of the aims of this paper is to demonstrate this. It will also be shown that digital leadership, in contrast to transformational leadership, can be acquired and that digital leadership cannot be classified in the opposition to transformational or transactional leadership, but is rather to be held and understood as a third variant. Only a prescriptive method based on under-standing seems to be a suitable method.digital leadershipindustry 4.0smart factorydigitisationvucatransactional leadershiptransformational leadershipmission-type tacticambidexteritycompetence |
| spellingShingle | Christoph Bach Rozália Sulíková Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 Managing Global Transitions digital leadership industry 4.0 smart factory digitisation vuca transactional leadership transformational leadership mission-type tactic ambidexterity competence |
| title | Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 |
| title_full | Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 |
| title_fullStr | Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 |
| title_short | Leadership in the Context of a New World: Digital Leadership and Industry 4.0 |
| title_sort | leadership in the context of a new world digital leadership and industry 4 0 |
| topic | digital leadership industry 4.0 smart factory digitisation vuca transactional leadership transformational leadership mission-type tactic ambidexterity competence |
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