The Role of Leadership in a Digitalized World
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This article reminds us that technology has impacted the workforce in many ways. It is a review of how digitalization shapes organizations and challenges leaders. Digitalization has increased connectivity and information sharing. Employees can use it to create new value when they are directly participating. It is up to leaders to capture that value. To do so, they need to incorporate digitalization in their management of people. Be attentive to the section on the relationship between e-leaders and organizations. The article also discusses the role of ethics in the organization and provides insights on how we can integrate leadership and digital tools.
Research Design
Data Analysis and Qualitative Coding
To attain a "systematic, transparent and reproducible review process", and identify research streams and seminal works, we first performed a bibliometric analysis of the initial dataset of 790 articles. In order to map the origin and evolution of the academic debate on digital transformation and leadership, a systematic coding analysis was conducted on the entire set of articles. Then, the iterative reading and discussion of the final dataset of articles highlighted the following emerging categories that guided our analysis: (i) theoretical or empirical papers; (ii) research methodology; (iii) level of analysis (micro and macro); (iv) definition of leadership and digitalization; (v) main themes or objectives of the article; (v) main underlying theories; (vi) field of study (e.g., Management and Planning, Economics and Business, Psychology and so forth). Based on this coding scheme, the three authors independently read and coded all articles. Subsequently, they discussed their coding attribution until an agreement on the final coding of each article was reached.