The Women Leadership: A Catalytic Role of Digital Divide Through Digital Ecosystem
- Title
- The Women Leadership: A Catalytic Role of Digital Divide Through Digital Ecosystem
- Creator
- Thomas J.V.; Mallika Sankar M.; Varghese J.P.; Kumar A.
- Description
- The digitalization of the macro environment of an organization and digital upskilling and digital capital formation in the micro level of human capital paves women an opportunity to ladder up in the organization in various job roles leading to women leadership. The sociodemographic, psychological, socioeconomic, and cultural factors to the digital divide predominantly determine digital capital formation. Every attempt of women to surpass the digital divide obstacle to digital capital formation enables women capital to leadership characteristics. The study proposes a conceptual framework by extricating the past scholarly works on digital divide, digital capital, technology leadership, and women leadership. The preferences and choices of women leading to leadership skills through technology by encapsulating digital capital formation are meritorious in the research inquiry. The individual factors and organization factors are taken to the moderating variables in the association of digital capital to the women leadership. The study finds the need of ICT and digital upskilling among the women professionals in industry and catalytic role of digital capital formation by surpassing the digital divide. The empirical study on the concept formulation is highly recommendable for the future study. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
- Source
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Vol-39, pp. 513-524.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer
- Subject
- Digitalization; Leadership; Organization; Technology
- Coverage
- Thomas J.V., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Mallika Sankar M., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Varghese J.P., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Kumar A., Kristu Jayanti College Autonomous, Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 18713041
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Thomas J.V.; Mallika Sankar M.; Varghese J.P.; Kumar A., “The Women Leadership: A Catalytic Role of Digital Divide Through Digital Ecosystem,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18130.