Preface

Leadership plays an important role for organizations in the dynamic business ecosystem. Effective leadership is a valuable source of competitive advantage for organizations and a determining factor in workplace team resilience and efficiency. In the digital era, entrepreneurial teams, policymakers, and managers need to balance both digital and managerial leadership capabilities to overcome new challenges raised in the business environment of public, private, and hybrid organizations. For instance, leadership dimensions and orientations as strategic levers need to be considered in today's volatile and rapidly evolving marketplace, both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Charismatic business leaders and managers in the Renaissance of the 21st Century must consider leadership as one of the key functions of management. On the top of classic management styles and approaches, it is important to consider diversity, environmental considerations, and different styles of leadership that ensure exemplary actions and influence other members of the organization. Leaders in the new era not only use rhetoric but also adhere to compliance with socially responsible practices. Leadership is more than just a simple management style and they need to develop a global mindset in the evolving business environment. Importantly, leadership is required for designing and implementing successful new business models for new ventures as well as established firms. Managerial and theoretical aspects of leadership should be focused on collective intelligence, strategic agility, and leadership styles that encourage both learning and knowledge sharing among collaborators to seize entrepreneurial opportunities and deal with geopolitical and socioeconomic challenges at different levels. The rapid advancement of technology, financial and economic crisis, serious disruptions to global value chains caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and social and environmental transformation require today's leaders to embrace a new model of governance and leadership. Thus, the challenge for organizations is to develop effective leadership styles to generate expected economic, environmental, and societal benefits. This book explores the question of leadership in a changing world by adopting a multidimensional perspective. There are eleven chapters written by authors from across the globe.

In Chapter 1, Job Jackson and Muhammad Hoque investigate the effective management of deportation of undocumented migrants by discussing various aspects of immigration and deportation in the South African context as well as identifying challenges in managing the deportation of illegal immigrants.

In Chapter 2, Fatimah AlAhmari explores the various theories that have dictated innovation leaders over the years and investigates the connection between leadership, innovation, and creativity. The author puts into perspective a host of possible ways in which innovative leaders have brought revolutions in the field of entrepreneurship.

In Chapiter 3, Bilal Khalid, Md Samim Al Azad, Slimane Ed-dafali, and Muhammad Mohiuddin investigate the relevance of venture leadership by exploring the idea of venture leadership, leadership skills, and ethics in an emerging

country context of Thailand. Specifically, they investigate how venture leadership thrives within the Thai business environment. They highlight that the quality of Thailand's leaders has a significant impact on the country's venture leadership success. Also, they conclude that the central skills of venture leadership should serve as a foundation for ongoing education.

In Chapter 4, Elizabeth Addy, Audrey Addy, and James Addy develop a conceptual model of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) in technical universities about the features of transformational leadership. They reveal that transformational leadership is the key to the prompt development of tertiary technical education.

In Chapter 5, Hailan Salamun, and Asyraf Ab Rahman investigate the importance of understanding leadership values from an Islamic perspective. They advocate a significant relationship between the spiritual values of leadership with Rabbani's leadership practices. Specifically, they conclude that Rabbani's leadership model produces three components that influence the perspective of the leadership framework: the vision of leadership, the impact of leadership, and the core principles of effective leadership (Maqasid Shariah).

In Chapter 6, Luciana Mourão, Gardênia da Silva Abbad, and Juliana Legentil propose an E-Leadership Theoretical Model for Brazilian public service in the context of teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical model proposed in this chapter can be used to plan and conduct research on relationships between antecedent variables (context, inputs), e-leadership processes, and their effects on essential criterion variables (outcomes for teleworkers and organizations).

In Chapter 7, Anna Uster provides an overview of current thinking on network leadership and related factors affecting local governance. The author concludes that leadership of inter-organizational networks requires organizational ability to achieve goals through collaboration with other organizations.

In Chapter 8, Afatakpa Fortune and Okedare David Olubunkunmi investigate leadership challenges among undergraduate students at Dominion University, Ibadan, Nigeria. The principal leadership challenges include lack of support for selected leaders, lack of respect, and incorrect perceptions. The chapter concludes that with the right kind of training, leadership skills acquisition can transform the plethora of challenges facing undergraduate leaders at Dominion University.

In Chapter 9, Harold Andrew Patrick, Sunil Kumar Ramdas, and Jacqueline Kareem investigate the software professional's emotions or perceptions about their positive leadership experiences in the workplace. This chapter provides an understanding of how virtuous behavior is vital in the workplace and how virtuous behaviors are the basic qualities that enhance the well-being and happiness of employees.

In Chapter 10, Ken Kalala Ndalamba and Euzália do Rosário Botelho Tomé examine the importance of process management as a requirement for organizational excellence. The authors develop six testable propositions that address the nature of process management and organizational excellence.

In Chapter 11, Inusah Salifu and Eugene Owusu-Acheampong use the context of Ghana to examine the kinds of digital technology tools university teachers in the

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developing world often use in their teaching as digital leaders, and whether the tools were effective in promoting academic work. Results reveal high average usage of

We believe our respected readers will find this book helpful for understanding the role and types of leadership needed to guide organizations in the rapidly changing

> **Muhammad Mohiuddin** Department of Management,

> > Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Laval University, Quebec, Canada Assistant Professor, School of Business, North-South University,

Bangladesh

**Bilal Khalid**

ENCG,

KMITL Business School, Bangkok, Thailand

Department of Management,

Chouaib Doukkali University,

**Slimane Ed-dafali**

El Jadida, Morocco

**Md Samim Al Azad** Post-doctoral Fellow,

Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chain on International Business,

laptops, mobile devices, and apps by digital leaders.

economic, social, and environmental business ecosystem.

developing world often use in their teaching as digital leaders, and whether the tools were effective in promoting academic work. Results reveal high average usage of laptops, mobile devices, and apps by digital leaders.

We believe our respected readers will find this book helpful for understanding the role and types of leadership needed to guide organizations in the rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental business ecosystem.
