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Leadership in a virtualized business world: making the impossible possible?

  • In a virtualized business world leadership relations are shifting noticeably towards “remote leadership” where leadership is conducted mainly through modern communication technology to cope with physical distance between leaders and employees. Against this background, many academic scholars are suggesting that transformational leadership is an appropriate leadership style to manage effectively in a remote context. Surprisingly, the trend in practice seems to go in the opposite direction. Based on an empirical study of remote leaders in action, we diagnosed an increasing usage of the “transactional toolbox”– management by objectives, management by exceptions, performance measurement, controlling and planning systems. From an academic standpoint this biasn reveals a completely unexpected development in leadership behaviour. Thus, in our article we try to shed light on this opposing trend.

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Author: Jasmin John, Prof. Dr. Achim Seisreiner
URN:urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-5752
Parent Title (English):6th International Conference on Economics and Management of Networks (EMNet), Agadir, Morocco
Document Type:Conference Proceeding/Conference Report
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/07/04
Year of first Publication:2013
Publishing Institution:SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Contributing Corporation:University of Vienna, EMNet Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
Release Date:2014/07/04
Tag:Leadership; Management; Virtual Business
Page Number:16
Link author profile:https://www.srh-berlin.de/hochschule/hochschulteam/seisreiner-achim/
Date:21.-23.11.2013
JEL-Classification:M Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
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