TY - CHAP

T1 - Off to new pastures: Exploring Tensions Between Followers and Leaders in the Automotive Industry Challenging the Adoption of Digital Leadership

AU - Eberl, Julia Katharina

AU - Drews, Paul

N1 - Conference code: 55

PY - 2022/1/1

Y1 - 2022/1/1

N2 - The automotive industry is driving digitalization at high speed to optimize operations, gain new business opportunities, and close the gap with new, leading competitors from the IT industry. Although the automotive industry aims for digital leadership (DL) to transfer from antecedent physical products to new pastures of digital services, the adoption is challenged by tensions in the follower–leader relationship (FLR). To identify these tensions for the first time in research, we analyzed DL in the automotive industry from a follower and leader perspective. Based on 25 interviews, the results extend existing research on the adoption of DL in the automotive industry by (a) identifying four configurations of digital leadership adoption stages causing tensions in the FLR which impede the adoption of DL and (b) four strategies for managing the tensions.

AB - The automotive industry is driving digitalization at high speed to optimize operations, gain new business opportunities, and close the gap with new, leading competitors from the IT industry. Although the automotive industry aims for digital leadership (DL) to transfer from antecedent physical products to new pastures of digital services, the adoption is challenged by tensions in the follower–leader relationship (FLR). To identify these tensions for the first time in research, we analyzed DL in the automotive industry from a follower and leader perspective. Based on 25 interviews, the results extend existing research on the adoption of DL in the automotive industry by (a) identifying four configurations of digital leadership adoption stages causing tensions in the FLR which impede the adoption of DL and (b) four strategies for managing the tensions.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Socio-technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies

KW - Digital leadership

KW - digital transformation

KW - follower-leader-relationship

KW - Leadership 4.0

KW - Socio-technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies digital leadership digital transformation follower-leader-relationship leadership 4.0 organizational transformation

UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rEjUrTdWpSwX_HbmM24jBZqSlGIOX9Oy/view

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/defc3ebb-e74b-319d-a8cc-9da962be55aa/

U2 - 10.24251/HICSS.2022.845

DO - 10.24251/HICSS.2022.845

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 9780998133157

T3 - Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

SP - 7004

EP - 7013

BT - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022

A2 - Bui, Tung X.

PB - HICSS Conference Office

CY - Honolulu

T2 - 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Y2 - 3 January 2022 through 7 January 2022

ER -