A special issue on knowledge and competence management: Developing Enterprise solutions

Vasconcelos, José Braga de; Kimble, Chris; Rocha, Álvaro

doi:10.1007/s10796-016-9717-z

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“…Digital leaders as they are frequently labeled are expected to orchestrate a team of technology experts (e.g., regarding Internet of things, artificial intelligence), business experts and entrepreneurs, and HRM experts (e.g., overcoming resistance, employee participation). In this regard, our research is in line with other authors claiming that people, not technology, drive DT and that organizations require leaders and not necessarily technological specialists for managing the complex changes that comprise an organization’s DT (Furr et al, 2019; Vasconcelos et al, 2016; Vial, 2019; Voigt et al, 2014).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…The general importance of leaders for the success of DT seems to be well substantiated (e.g., Lenkenhoff et al, 2018;Li et al, 2018;Vasconcelos et al, 2016;Vial, 2019;Voigt et al, 2014). However, the question arises as to which specific leadership competencies and skills companies and public administrations need to successfully manage the fundamental transformation in the digital age.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Leadership competencies for digital transformation: An exploratory content analysis of job advertisements

Gilli

Nippa

Knappstein

2022

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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Harnessing the opportunities of emerging information technologies is one of the great challenges companies are facing today. To successfully master digital transformation, organizations need leaders who can grasp the opportunities of digitalization for their business and transform them into new business models. Aiming at providing empirical evidence regarding competencies sought by practitioners for managing digital transformation, we analyze 239 job advertisements targeting digital transformation experts and examine the skills and traits explicitly called for. Our results reveal that technical skills and in-depth expertise in information technologies play only a secondary role in job requirement profiles. Like in earlier strategic change processes, digital transformation experts should primarily possess collaboration, strategic thinking, leadership, customer orientation, and communication skills. Moreover, in contrast to purely conceptual studies limited to skills and abilities, our analyses emphasize the importance of specific personality traits, such as proactivity and creativity, since these are often explicitly mentioned in corresponding job advertisements.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leadership competencies for digital transformation: An exploratory content analysis of job advertisements

Gilli

Nippa

Knappstein

2022

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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“…In the 80s, the concept of skills started to have significant importance due to technological, organizational, and economic factors. Considered as a resource-of individual and organizational nature-which would allow competitiveness and productivity advantages to companies (Vasconcelos et al 2016).…”

Section: Skills Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Higher Education Courses for Teams Leaders

Sousa

2018

Administrative Sciences

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This article analyses the concept of skills and identifies the skills needed by entrepreneurs to lead their teams. To accomplish these goals, the primary step was to determine the leadership skills developed by the universities in the entrepreneurship and innovation courses and to compare it with the needed skills perceived by entrepreneurs. This research approach is framed in the Management Sciences, and the research problem is anchored to the following research questions: What leadership skills are required by students for them to be effective in entrepreneurial endeavors upon graduation? Are the skills identified by the entrepreneurs sufficiently learned in Universities in Portugal? Does the student work experience, gender or age contribute to a level of leadership skills attainment? The leadership skills identified by the entrepreneurs were pointed out by two focus groups with 15 entrepreneurs and by conceptual content analysis, establishing the existence and frequency of concepts represented by the words or phrases in the entrepreneur's discourse. To verify if those skills are being developed in the entrepreneurship and innovation of higher education courses, an online survey was conducted with the students from the 3rd year of 2016/2017 academic year of several universities. The primary outcome of the research will be a proposal for a model of leadership skills development for students to potentiate their leadership capacity as entrepreneurs.

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“…Furthermore, the concept of skills became significant because of organizational, technical and financial factors in the 1980s. It gained importance as resource of organizational and individual nature, which provided competitive advantage and production advantage to organizations (Vasconcelos et al , 2016). In the past, skills have been referred to as singular characteristics.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influences of entrepreneurship skills and universities on the promotion of entrepreneurial intentions of students; mediating role of business simulation games

Shabbir,

Pallares-Venegas

2024

OTH

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Purpose Entrepreneurship has become a widely accepted concept in the past few decades due to its prominent role in economic activity and economic development of a nation. Promotion of entrepreneurship can be ensured with the help of entrepreneurship teaching and learning through higher education institutions. Similarly, entrepreneurship skills play a significant role in the promotion of students’ intentions to become entrepreneurs. This study aims to examine the role of universities and entrepreneurship skills on the entrepreneurial intentions of students. Design/methodology/approach Business simulation games is taken as mediator between university role and entrepreneurial intentions as well as entrepreneurship skills and entrepreneurial intentions. This research has used Smart PLS to perform a PLS-SEM technique with a data of 378 students from higher education institutions of Malaysia. Findings The results of data analysis show a positive role of universities and entrepreneurship skills in the promotion of student’s entrepreneurial intentions. Moreover, business simulation games positively mediates the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Originality/value Results of this research prove that entrepreneurial skills and university support have a significant part in the promotion of entrepreneurship intentions of students. As students use the electronic resources such as business simulation games, their skills, attitude and practical knowledge is positively enhanced and eventually it positively impacts the intention of students to become entrepreneurs. Therefore, it is believed that promotion of entrepreneurial skills in students via business simulation games and positive role of universities in promoting entrepreneurship will have a significant positive influence on the students’ entrepreneurial intentions.

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A special issue on knowledge and competence management: Developing Enterprise solutions

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Leadership competencies for digital transformation: An exploratory content analysis of job advertisements

Leadership competencies for digital transformation: An exploratory content analysis of job advertisements

Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Higher Education Courses for Teams Leaders

Influences of entrepreneurship skills and universities on the promotion of entrepreneurial intentions of students; mediating role of business simulation games

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