The broad aim of the, E-LEADERSHIP 2012, is to provide an international platform for scholars, practitioners and public policy makers, a forum for exchanging ideas on applying e-leadership for sustainable ICT innovations. E-Leadership, a concept described by Avolio, Kahaia and Dodge (2000) as a process of influence operating within or enabled by Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) environments has been gaining traction over the past decade within the disciplines and the practitioner communities of Information Systems (IS) and Organizational/Management studies. The origins of the term can be linked to the commercial spread of the Internet since the mid-1990s, and the increasing pervasiveness of advanced information and communications technologies leading to a globalized knowledge economy. The rise in ICT investments in both the public and the commercial sectors has also meant that organizations (public and private) are either wholly and/or partially dependent on ICT, which has resulted in extensive virtual networks as a basis for not only inter-personal relationships, but also intra- and inter-organizational networks. Therefore, when e-leadership is considered within the context of the increasingly knowledge-based society, the need to focus on developing capabilities to integrate critical knowledge resources, of which ICT forms a critical component, must be emphasized in order to enhance provision of value in service delivery in both public and private sector organizations.
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