Meet the editor

Mário Franco is a professor of entrepreneurship and SME administration at the Department of Management and Economics, Beira Interior University, Portugal. He received his PhD in Management from Beira Interior University in 2002. In 1997, he was a doctoral candidate and participated in the European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in Spain and Sweden. He is director of 2nd Cy-

cle (Master) of Management. His research focuses on strategic alliances, business networks, innovation, and business creation. He is also a member of a research unit (CEFAGE-UBI) and is currently involved in several research projects on SMEs. He has authored several articles published in journals such as *Long Range Planning, R&D Management, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Management Decision*, among others, and books and book chapters published by international publishers.

Contents

**Section 1**

Approach

**Section 2**

Perspective

**Section 3**

*by Petros G. Malakyan*

Development Model

*and Fabiana Sepe*

**Preface III**

Leadership in Digital Era: Main Challenges **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 37**

Digital Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Applications **57**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 83**

Digital Leadership in Different Countries **107**

**Chapter 6 109**

Leadership in the Digital Realm: What Are the Main Challenges?

Leadership for Digital Working: Towards a Contextual Ambidextrous

Competitive Advantage Leadership in the Ultra Modern Era

Digital Leader-Followership for the Digital Age: A North American

Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS): Scaling of a Team Leadership

*by Tjiptogoro Dinarjo Soehari and Iffah Budiningsih*

*by John R. Turner, Rose M. Baker and Kerry Romine*

The Digitization in the Spanish Publishing Industry *by Marta Magadán-Díaz and Jesús Rivas-García*

*by Valentina Della Corte, Giovanna Del Gaudio* 

*by Daniele Binci and Francesco Scafarto*

## Contents



Preface

The advanced and rapid progression of digital technologies has contributed

The number of leaders adapting to and engaging with digital technology in organizations is rapidly growing, and these developments provide great incentives to explore the conditions facilitating digital transformation. Digital technology can provide many advantages to organizations, such as faster communication unrestrained from time and space, effectively making access to other knowledge

As digital organizations are becoming more common, there is a need to recognize and understand the challenges, processes, and opportunities distinctive to digital leaders. It may be said that digital leaders' ability to detect technological opportunities is attributed to different scientific skill sets and expertise. The quality of leaders' research and previous experience of discovering technological opportunities would more likely foster the detection of new technological

In this context, digital leadership, as a new style of leadership, has gained increasing attention. The technological changes of the last few decades have shaped new concepts of leadership, such as digital leadership. Digital leadership is here defined as the human quality of leadership exercised with digital tools in the virtual world. We are in a period in which information communication technology is seen as an important resource; therefore, the call for digital leadership is more and more urgent. The importance of digital leadership has been widely recognized in the literature, evidenced by the notable increase in relevant publications in the past few years. Thus, in general, this book will be devoted to the study of the benefits of digital leadership (digital technologies), as well as the risks of this type of leadership. New perspectives on digital leadership will be also presented in different contexts.

This is the purpose for which this book has been written and it is structured in three

perspectives and its challenges in the twenty-first century. In the **first chapter**, the authors attempt to clarify the main challenges of leadership in the digital realm. This chapter examines how digital leaders cultivate opportunities and address risks

The **second chapter** is titled "Leadership for Digital Working: Towards a Contextual Ambidextrous Approach." Here the authors show how the leadership area can be approached from this theory. Some examples are presented and some arguments are

In the first section, we collected papers showing leadership from different

in a fast-moving, digital market environment.

networks and global markets convenient.

business.

opportunities.

sections.

also discussed.

massive structural changes to the world economy. Over the last few decades, digital technologies have fundamentally changed organizations, business strategies, processes, products, and services by deconstructing traditional ways of doing
