e-Leadership through strategic alignment: an empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age
e-Leadership through strategic alignment: an empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age
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DOI：
10.1057/jit.2016.10
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
O'Regan, Nicholas
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作者：
Li, Weizi;Liu, Kecheng;O'Regan, Nicholas
中小企业在欧洲经济中发挥着重要作用。由于持续的数字技术革命，中小企业领导人面临的一个关键挑战是如何最佳地将业务战略与数字技术结合起来，以充分利用这些技术提供的潜力，追求长寿和增长。缺乏实证研究，探讨中小企业的电子领导力如何推动业务战略与数字技术之间的成功协调，促进长寿和增长。为了解决这一差距，在本文中，我们开发了一个经验得出的电子领导模型。首先，我们发展了一个理论模型的电子领导战略调整理论。这为中小企业如何利用数字技术支持其可持续增长的业务战略提供了理论基础。一个深入的实证研究进行了采访42个成功的欧洲中小企业领导人，以验证，推进和充实我们的理论驱动模型。两个阶段的过程的结果-归纳发展的理论驱动的电子化领导模式和演绎的进步，通过深入采访成功的欧洲中小企业领导人，发展一个完整的模型是一个电子化领导模式与具体的结构，促进有效的战略调整。由此产生的诊断模型使中小企业决策者能够通过在业务战略和数字技术之间建立富有成效的一致性来实现有效的电子领导，从而提高寿命和增长前景。
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the European economy. A critical challenge faced by SME leaders, as a consequence of the continuing digital technology revolution, is how to optimally align business strategy with digital technology to fully leverage the potential offered by these technologies in pursuit of longevity and growth. There is a paucity of empirical research examining how e-leadership in SMEs drives successful alignment between business strategy and digital technology fostering longevity and growth. To address this gap, in this paper we develop an empirically derived e-leadership model. Initially we develop a theoretical model of e-leadership drawing on strategic alignment theory. This provides a theoretical foundation on how SMEs can harness digital technology in support of their business strategy enabling sustainable growth. An in-depth empirical study was undertaken interviewing 42 successful European SME leaders to validate, advance and substantiate our theoretically driven model. The outcome of the two stage process - inductive development of a theoretically driven e-leadership model and deductive advancement to develop a complete model through in-depth interviews with successful European SME leaders is an e-leadership model with specific constructs fostering effective strategic alignment. The resulting diagnostic model enables SME decision makers to exercise effective e-leadership by creating productive alignment between business strategy and digital technology improving longevity and growth prospects.