Digital Needs Diversity: Innovation and Digital Leadership from a Female Managers’ Perspective

Anne E. Gfrerer (), Lars Rademacher () and Stefan Dobler ()
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Anne E. Gfrerer: University of Innsbruck
Lars Rademacher: Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Stefan Dobler: Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society

A chapter in Digitalization, 2021, pp 335-349 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Managers are increasingly facing various challenges associated with digital transformation and innovation. Organizations have to exploit businesses and explore new innovative ideas. They strive for digital leadership. However, literature demonstrates that the there is a lack in definition of the concept of digital leadership and its characteristics. At the same time, innovation theories demonstrate that, next to cognitive diversity, gender diversity in the management team provides assets that are needed for an impactful innovation and digitalization process. The main interest of our research is to explore the concept of digital leadership from the perspective of female managers. Based on a qualitative prestudy and a quantitative online survey with 90 female managers, our findings reveal skills and characteristics that digital leadership is composed of. We contribute to literature by expanding our knowledge of the concept of digital leadership and by exploring it from the viewpoint of female managers.

Keywords: Digital leadership; Gender diversity; Cognitive diversity; Innovation leadership; Innovation management; Female managers; Digital transformation; Ambidexterity; Heterogeneity; Incumbents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69380-0_19

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