Von der charismatischen Herrschaft zum ‚digital leader‘: Führung im Wandel?

Elias Friederike () and Valarini Elizangela ()
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Elias Friederike: Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Deutschland
Valarini Elizangela: Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Deutschland

Arbeit, 2021, vol. 30, issue 3, 239-259

Abstract: In the course of the digital transformation, a fundamental change in the structures of companies is postulated in order to ensure better adaptation to a changing environment. New leadership concepts are being proposed in management discourse under the labels “digital leadership” or “agile leadership”. In our paper, we are asking whether a sweeping reorganization of the leadership relationship is actually taking place. Based on 36 interviews with executives from companies operating in the manufacturing and service sectors, we conducted a sociological collective mindset analysis, the results of which are discussed here. Our findings reveal continuities in German managers’ understanding of leadership rather than a fundamental change. Rather, digitalization is reinforcing the assertion of the participative leadership style, a development that empirical studies have traced back to the early 1980s.

Keywords: Digital leader; understanding of leadership; agile concept; digitalization; participatory leadership; Digital leader; Führungsverständnis; agiles Konzept; Digitalisierung; partizipative Führung; Digital leader; understanding of leadership; agile concept; digitalization; participatory leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2021-0017

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