Healthcare cooperation in the era of e-leadership

Abstract

In multi-site organizations, local managers are increasingly faced with managing teams dispersed over a territory. These new modes of operation, enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), raise questions about managers’ ability to exercise remote leadership in everyday situations. Through the use of ICT, the leader of remote teams becomes an e-leader, a managerial tool which by its particular characteristics allows the manager to exercise leadership within companies in order to benefit from the advantages of working at distance. Our study focuses on their particular characteristics. We wish to provide an understanding of e-leadership by its exercise within a multi-site organization which has adopted the use of information technologies
by managerial necessity of coordinating its remote teams.