A Handbook of Leadership Styles, Chapter Fifteen Digital Leadership 

A Handbook of Leadership Styles

Chapter Fifteen Digital Leadership 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

In this section, a vital type of leadership which is digitalization and leadership, or digital leadership will be considered. Business leaders present ideas of how they can provide and implement the competitive advantage of digitalization in their organizations for their future success— through digital transformation. A digital leader can be defined as a person who can motivate people working under his/her supervision, is independent of time and space, and can manage a business in a way that is focused on data and figures. In today’s business life, digitalization has changed not only the way of doing business but also the characteristics that leaders should possess. Digital leadership behaviors and other factors that affect these concepts are explained in this chapter. Moreover, the digital leadership research and findings in the literature review have been interpreted and a conceptual infrastructure has been created to determine the points of digital leadership. Various evaluations are made for practitioners and academicians, and suggestions for future studies presented.