Managing virtual enterprises in the digital age: Challenges and strategies of e-leadership
Keywords:
E-leadership, E-organization, communication technology, virtual teamAbstract
The significant advancement of the communication technology has made many social constructs shift to the cyber world. With the emergence of e-commerce and e-markets came the e-enterprises that operate in the e-environment. These enterprises have particular dynamics due to their special human resources that work through the means of communication technology. Yet, the social, cultural and organizational features still exist within these enterprises, since the tasks performed are delegated to virtual teams. These latters have hybrid characteristics of the classical team, with the fusion of the communication technology when executing their tasks, which necessitate the need for particular type of leadership capable of guiding virtual teams according to the goals of their e-enterprise. Therefore, the current communication aims to highlight the e-leadership on its interaction with the virtual teams of the e-enterprises as a new approach of business management.
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