ABSTRACT
This opening chapter sets the stage for the exploration of digital leadership, elucidating its significance and increasing necessity in the context of a post-COVID-19 technology-driven and knowledge-intensive era. This chapter also delves into the challenges that confront the practice and research of digitalisation. Moreover, it seeks to provide comprehensive answers to fundamental questions, including the identification and assessment of problems addressed in the book, the genuineness of these problems, the knowledge gaps this work aims to fill and the primary challenges encountered throughout the investigation. Additionally, this chapter outlines the book's structure, providing a clear roadmap of subsequent chapters and their respective contributions to the field of leadership and digitalisation scholarship.
1. Importance of Digital Leadership in the Post-COVID-19 Era. 2. Identifying Genuine Problems Addressed. 3. Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Leadership and Digitalisation Scholarship. 4. This chapter proceeds to analyse the knowledge gaps that this book endeavours to fill within the realms of leadership and digitalisation scholarship. 5. Confronting Primary Challenges. 6. Structure of the Book.
