2020
DOI: 10.1007/s40685-020-00130-0
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More self-organization, more control—or even both? Inverse transparency as a digital leadership concept

Abstract: Digital innovations drive an organization’s digital transformation. While numerous studies focus on digital product and service innovation, digital process innovation and novel business models, management and leadership concepts are primarily investigated as enabling framing conditions in previous contributions. However, management and leadership concepts have changed dramatically in the digital era. The rise of digital technologies has led to companies acquiring large amounts of data. Moreover, novel technica… Show more

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“…The past few years have witnessed growing academic interest in digital leadership (e.g., El Sawy et al, 2016 ; Larjovuori et al, 2016 ; Gierlich-Joas et al, 2020 ; Klein, 2020 ; Bresciani et al, 2021 ; Claassen et al, 2021 ; de Araujo et al, 2021 ), but few studies have focused on the relationship between digital leadership and employee creativity. Based on the job demands–resources model and person–organization fit theory, this study examines the relationship between digital leadership and employee creativity.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The past few years have witnessed growing academic interest in digital leadership (e.g., El Sawy et al, 2016 ; Larjovuori et al, 2016 ; Gierlich-Joas et al, 2020 ; Klein, 2020 ; Bresciani et al, 2021 ; Claassen et al, 2021 ; de Araujo et al, 2021 ), but few studies have focused on the relationship between digital leadership and employee creativity. Based on the job demands–resources model and person–organization fit theory, this study examines the relationship between digital leadership and employee creativity.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As recent studies in the field of control theory highlight, the novel degree of transparency in organizations can be used to either enable or track employees [25,37]. Thus, the thorough implementation of transparency is of high importance as it lays the foundation to prevent mistrust and enables ways of successful empowerment [16]. By examining the challenge of empowerment in an explorative way, we add to the literature on leadership in the digital age and control theory [1,24].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As for the technology-pull, there is a rising demand for empowerment, which creates a strong interest in LRIS supporting transparency and participation [16]. Once these novel digital solutions are applied in firms, they trigger a transformation on the business side [17].…”
Section: Current Trends In Leadership and Leadership-related Information Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Leadership itself is a process in which a manager or a leader intentionally influences other [7]. Leadership also functions as interpersonal information processing and a decision-making role [8]. Leadership also can be described as the management of employee relations and the exercise of authority to coordinate tasks within a company to fulfill whether it is a strategic or company operational goal [9].…”
Section: Strategic Digital Leadership To Boost Innovationmentioning
confidence: 99%