Innovative Leadership in the Digital Age: A Preliminary Research on Digital Leadership in Contemporary Management

This preliminary chapter aims to give an overview about digital leadership, including definition, characteristic, and its importance towards facing the digital era’s challenges. This chapter also delves into the role of technology in improving digital leadership, factors that affect its achievement, and how those factors influence contemporary management. With this purpose, a qualitative research method was done by exploring, reviewing, and analysing literatures related to digital leadership and contemporary management. The data were collected from journals, books, articles, and other relevant publications. The findings reveal that (1) digital leadership is an important concept in contemporary management and (2) an effective leader managing the digital space needs to retain unique technological proficiency, ability to innovate, and leadership skill compared to traditional leadership. This chapter contributes to the development of a more effective modern management against various challenges in the digital era.