Factors Influencing Digital Transformation Leadership and its Impact on Digital Business Results: Some Enterprises in Vietnam
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https://doi.org/10.56532/mjbem.v4i2.131Keywords:
Leadership, Performance, Digital Innovation Culture, Digital Creative, Transformational Leadership, DigitalAbstract
The content of this research paper aims to explore and analyze the relationship between Digital Transformational Leadership (DTL) and Digital Business Performance (DBP), with factors affecting Digital Transformational Leadership including Digital Innovation Culture (DIC); Digital Creative Capability (DCC), Digital Adaptability (DA), Digital Employee Competency (DEC), HR digital capabilities (HRDC), Digital Management Efficiency (DME), Accept Digital Technology (ADT). With the research process combining Qualitative and Quantitative, the data processing process using SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0 software. The results show that Digital Transformational Leadership (DTL) has a direct impact on Digital Business Results (DBP) with an impact coefficient of β = 0.344; P < 0.01, showing the important role of Digital Transformational Leadership (DTL) in promoting business results. In which, the factors Digital Creative Capability (DCC) and Digital Adaptability (DA) have the strongest impact on Digital Transformational Leadership (DTL) with impact coefficients of β = 0.179 and β = 0.184 respectively. The remaining factors such as Digital Management Efficiency (DME). Human resource digital capability (HRDC) , Digital management effectiveness (DME) , and Digital technology acceptance (ADT) have impact coefficients of β = 0.184; β = 0.165; β = 0.188; β = 0.186, respectively. This result helps to determine the role of factors in improving Digital Transformational Leadership (DTL) capacity and optimizing Digital Business Performance (DBP) in the current global digital transformation situation.
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