TY - CHAP

T1 - Digital Leadership ‒ Mountain or Molehill?

T2 - International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik

AU - Eberl, Julia Katharina

AU - Drews, Paul

N1 - Conference code: 16

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Despite the high relevance of digital leadership (DL) in practitioner outlets, its definition and determinants remain fuzzy, resulting in impeded DL theory development. Based on a structured literature review grounded in 96 publications, we developed a new definition of DL and a nomological determinant network. First, we provide conceptual clarity by differentiating DL from E-leadership with a definition of the former. Second, we present an inductively developed nomological network that specifies 13 DL determinants structured per the categories organizational level, individual level, and digital leader. Based on this network, we propose six future research areas, which are (1) theoretical clarity of DL as a concept, (2) measurement systems, (3) DL’s impact on output variables, (4) empirical evidence about determinants of the nomological network, (5) research design extensions through further perspectives and instruments, and (6) approaches to adopt DL.

AB - Despite the high relevance of digital leadership (DL) in practitioner outlets, its definition and determinants remain fuzzy, resulting in impeded DL theory development. Based on a structured literature review grounded in 96 publications, we developed a new definition of DL and a nomological determinant network. First, we provide conceptual clarity by differentiating DL from E-leadership with a definition of the former. Second, we present an inductively developed nomological network that specifies 13 DL determinants structured per the categories organizational level, individual level, and digital leader. Based on this network, we propose six future research areas, which are (1) theoretical clarity of DL as a concept, (2) measurement systems, (3) DL’s impact on output variables, (4) empirical evidence about determinants of the nomological network, (5) research design extensions through further perspectives and instruments, and (6) approaches to adopt DL.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Digital leadership

KW - Digital transformation

KW - Literature review

KW - Organization transformation

KW - Leadership 4.0

UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/wi2021/HDigitaltransformation17/Track17/5/

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119355713&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-86800-0_17

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-86800-0_17

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-030-86799-7

VL - 3

T3 - Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation

SP - 223

EP - 237

BT - Innovation Through Information Systems

A2 - Ahlemann, Frederik

A2 - Schütte, Reinhard

A2 - Stieglitz, Stefan

PB - Springer Nature Switzerland AG

CY - Cham

Y2 - 9 March 2021 through 11 March 2021

ER -