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Ehlers U. (2020). Digital Leadership in Higher Education. johepal. 1(3), 6-14.

URL: http://johepal.com/article-1-66-en.html

Region/ Country

Germany

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Authorship

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers

Description:

The issue “digital leadership” in higher education (HE) is challenging in two ways: Firstly, it is unclear whether we talk about the concepts of “digital leadership” or rather those of “leadership in the digital age”. Secondly, it is an urgent topic: An increasing number of higher education institutions (HEIs) are involved in permanent change processes. This leads to their managers struggling to build and implement a coherent strategy for the institutions’ digital transformation processes that is also externally visible. Despite managers occupying a key role for successful change processes, surprisingly we have little research on digital transformation processes in HEIs. Whereas other research fields (e.g. management, military) can rely on a rich base of empirical research on the topic of leadership, there is a lack of research for “leadership in education”..

Dimensions:

1 - Leadership and government