E-leadership 2.0: Meet Your AI Leader

Xiaochuan Song () and Michael Ford ()
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Xiaochuan Song: Nova Southeastern University, Department of Management
Michael Ford: University of Alabama, Department of Management

Chapter 8 in Leadership After COVID-19, 2022, pp 131-151 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has made it imperative to practice social distancing, making technology-mediated leadership more needed than ever before. E-leadership sheds light on coordinating and reshaping the workforce through the integration of leadership and advanced information technology. However, extant e-leadership literature is still based on the assumption that it is a technology-assisted natural intelligence (i.e., human intelligence) system. Artificial intelligence (AI)-simulated leaders can be a viable alternative to human leaders because of their abilities to learn and apply learning to works. The pandemic, coupled with AI technology, drives us to revisit and rethink e-leadership from an AI perspective. By integrating AI into e-leadership, we propose “e-leadership 2.0,” which explores the possibility of substituting natural intelligence with AI in a leadership context. From the standpoint of leader presence and leadership substitute theory, this chapter explored the possibility of substituting human leaders with AI-simulated leaders and boundary conditions.

Keywords: Advanced information technology (AIT); Mediated communication; E-leadership; Artificial intelligence (AI); Leader substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84867-5_8

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