Requirements of collaborative and transformational leadership in digital ecosystems: Techno-orchestrating leaders in a VUCA world

In today’s increasingly web-enabled digital world, business environment is being transformed into ecosystems of partners in which digital connectivity, real-time data, information sharing, and visibility are enabled. Partners are becoming increasingly dependent, network collaboration is turning into...

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Autores: Begeç, Suat, Akyuz, Goknur Arzu
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista de Administração de Empresas
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/89821
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/89821
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:collaboration
digitalization
leadership
requirements
VUCA
colaboração
digitalização
liderança
requisitos
colaboración
digitalización
liderazgo
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Sumario:In today’s increasingly web-enabled digital world, business environment is being transformed into ecosystems of partners in which digital connectivity, real-time data, information sharing, and visibility are enabled. Partners are becoming increasingly dependent, network collaboration is turning into a key success factor, and managerial, organizational, and leadership paradigms are radically changing. This study investigates the requirements of leadership under these collaborative, transformational and technology-intensive conditions. Through a comprehensive and systematic literature review, the study offers main leadership requirements, desired leadership practices, and leader profiles to become successful in this context. Therefore, a conceptual framework is developed. The findings reveal that leadership requirements for digital ecosystems (DES’s) are entirely different from traditional leadership understanding, and orchestration stands out as a key concept. This study is valuable for providing a comprehensive literature review and developing a conceptual framework.