Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model
Supply chains face resilience and sustainability challenges from disruptions and digital advancements, with limited insight into leadership-driven digital solutions. This study investigates how green digital transformational leadership (G-DTL) influences green digital supply chain transformation (G-...
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| author | Mahmoud Abdulhadi Alabdali Muhammad Zafar Yaqub Josef Windsperger |
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| description | Supply chains face resilience and sustainability challenges from disruptions and digital advancements, with limited insight into leadership-driven digital solutions. This study investigates how green digital transformational leadership (G-DTL) influences green digital supply chain transformation (G-DSCT) and resilience (G-DSCR). We examine the serial mediation roles of algorithmic management (ALGM) and green digital absorptive capacity (G-DAC) in these relationships. Utilizing transformational leadership and absorptive capacity theories within the stimulus–organism–response framework, we collected and analyzed survey data from 324 supply chain professionals in Saudi Arabia using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results confirm that G-DTL significantly and positively impacts G-DSCT and G-DSCR, with ALGM and G-DAC sequentially mediating the G-DTL–G-DSCR relationship. Practically, leaders should proactively invest in developing green digital leadership competencies and adopt ALGM tools to enhance their absorptive capacity. This strategic combination enables organizations to tackle disruptions, ensuring sustainable transformation and supply chain resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ce80f3d337654f278b84a677889d239c2025-08-20T02:05:17ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Information Management Data Insights2667-09682025-06-015110034310.1016/j.jjimei.2025.100343Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation modelMahmoud Abdulhadi Alabdali0Muhammad Zafar Yaqub1Josef Windsperger2Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 23589, Saudi Arabia; Corresponding author.Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 23589, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Business Decisions and Analytics, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaSupply chains face resilience and sustainability challenges from disruptions and digital advancements, with limited insight into leadership-driven digital solutions. This study investigates how green digital transformational leadership (G-DTL) influences green digital supply chain transformation (G-DSCT) and resilience (G-DSCR). We examine the serial mediation roles of algorithmic management (ALGM) and green digital absorptive capacity (G-DAC) in these relationships. Utilizing transformational leadership and absorptive capacity theories within the stimulus–organism–response framework, we collected and analyzed survey data from 324 supply chain professionals in Saudi Arabia using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results confirm that G-DTL significantly and positively impacts G-DSCT and G-DSCR, with ALGM and G-DAC sequentially mediating the G-DTL–G-DSCR relationship. Practically, leaders should proactively invest in developing green digital leadership competencies and adopt ALGM tools to enhance their absorptive capacity. This strategic combination enables organizations to tackle disruptions, ensuring sustainable transformation and supply chain resilience.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667096825000254Green digital transformational leadershipAlgorithmic managementGreen digital absorptive capacitySupply chain transformationSupply chain resilienceStimulus–organism–response framework |
| spellingShingle | Mahmoud Abdulhadi Alabdali Muhammad Zafar Yaqub Josef Windsperger Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model International Journal of Information Management Data Insights Green digital transformational leadership Algorithmic management Green digital absorptive capacity Supply chain transformation Supply chain resilience Stimulus–organism–response framework |
| title | Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model |
| title_full | Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model |
| title_fullStr | Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model |
| title_short | Green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains: A serial mediation model |
| title_sort | green digital leadership and algorithmic management for sustainable supply chains a serial mediation model |
| topic | Green digital transformational leadership Algorithmic management Green digital absorptive capacity Supply chain transformation Supply chain resilience Stimulus–organism–response framework |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667096825000254 |
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