Knowledge Management, Leadership, and Innovation in Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have created an opportunity to bring together knowledge management, leadership, and innovation. Any business that wishes to thrive in today's competitive digital landscape must prioritize knowledge management. Leadership in the digital era is about leveraging digital tools to manage knowledge to attain a strategic advantage effectively. Thus, leadership is an essential and central element for knowledge creation, acquisition, utilization, and integration. As a result, this book will focus on knowledge management, leadership, and innovation, all intertwined but not covered in existing research.

The book integrates knowledge management, leadership, and innovation into a unified framework in the era of digitization, exploring the benefits knowledge management can bring to organizations adapting to new digital requirements in a dynamic environment. It presents both theoretical and empirical research to synthesize these distinct disciplines in a cohesive body of work. The resulting model will create a useful framework to be applied to future research and further add to practical and theoretical implications.

The book is primarily written for scholars, researchers, and advanced students with an interest in the three disciplines and associated fields.

Asha Thomas is Assistant Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. She completed her PhD in Management and Quality Sciences from Delhi Technological University, India. Her areas of research interest include knowledge management, open innovation, SMEs, leadership, grassroots innovation, and scale development and validation. She has over 14 years of experience in teaching and several years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries. She has published research papers in journals like the European Journal of Innovation, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Journal of Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Kybernetes, Management Decision, Technology in Society, The International Journal of Management Education among others. Her research paper was recognized among the top 1% of highly-cited articles in the social science category by the Web of Science in 2022. She serves as an associate and a guest editor and is also part of the editorial board of various journals.