Strategic leadership at high altitude: Investigating how AI affects the required skills of top managers

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296325007015?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296325007015?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115878" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115878</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Strategic leadership at high altitude: Investigating how AI affects the required skills of top managers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a core driver of organizational digital transformation, several studies emphasize the critical role of top managers. While prior research has examined the skills at the top levels in digital contexts, few studies differentiate the implications of diverse AI technologies for the strategic leadership skills of top managers. Drawing on upper echelons theory (UET), we conducted 23 interviews with senior executives across diverse industries. Our findings identify four interdependent leadership skills: 1) AI open mindset; 2) AI strategic co-thinker; 3) Multi-level connector; 4) Ethics risk management. We propose a multi-level framework that captures the interactive nature of these skills, operating across personal, organizational, and relational dimensions and shaped by top-down and bottom-up dynamics. The study, grounded in UET, contributes to the emerging debate on how AI reshapes top managers' strategic leadership skills and introduces the enabling role of middle managers in AI transformation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Strategic leadership at high altitude: Investigating how AI affects the required skills of top managers

Popis výsledku anglicky

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a core driver of organizational digital transformation, several studies emphasize the critical role of top managers. While prior research has examined the skills at the top levels in digital contexts, few studies differentiate the implications of diverse AI technologies for the strategic leadership skills of top managers. Drawing on upper echelons theory (UET), we conducted 23 interviews with senior executives across diverse industries. Our findings identify four interdependent leadership skills: 1) AI open mindset; 2) AI strategic co-thinker; 3) Multi-level connector; 4) Ethics risk management. We propose a multi-level framework that captures the interactive nature of these skills, operating across personal, organizational, and relational dimensions and shaped by top-down and bottom-up dynamics. The study, grounded in UET, contributes to the emerging debate on how AI reshapes top managers' strategic leadership skills and introduces the enabling role of middle managers in AI transformation.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50204 - Business and management

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

ISSN

0148-2963

e-ISSN

1873-7978

Svazek periodika

2055

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

115878

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

1-18

Kód UT WoS článku

001634787200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105029737579