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1. The Landscape of Digital Transformation and Leadership

Author : Masaki Matsunaga

Published in: Employee Uncertainty Over Digital Transformation

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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This chapter presents an overview of the current monograph, which explores digital transformation and leadership with a particular focus on human elements interlaced within these dual processes. First, it emphasizes the exigency underpinning the research within the book; despite the wealth of literature on DX and leadership from strategic standpoints, there is a gap in understanding how DX affects the individuals involved and how leadership intervenes with such processes. Based on this problematization, the current chapter outlines the book’s aims and scope in terms of scrutinizing the intricate nature of DX from a human-centered perspective, theorizing about the role of leadership within the context of digital transformation, and bridging theory and practice through an interdisciplinary approach. This chapter then provides an overview of the subsequent chapters and identifies the readers who will benefit most from the book (scholars, postgraduate students including those in MBA programs, and business professionals interested in DX and leadership). It also provides reading strategies recommended based on readers’ backgrounds, interests, and objectives.

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Title: The Landscape of Digital Transformation and Leadership
Author: Masaki Matsunaga
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Employee Uncertainty Over Digital Transformation
Print ISBN: 978-981-9984-08-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9984-09-1

Copyright Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8409-1_1

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