مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والتسيير والعلوم التجارية
Volume 19, Numéro 1, Pages 491-507
2026-06-30

Digital Leadership And Strategic Vigilance In Algerian Higher Education: Toward An Integrated Theoretical Framework



Authors : Bensaad Aicha .

Abstract

Digital transformation has become a defining challenge for higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide, yet its leadership dimensions remain undertheorized in non-Western contexts. This article advances a theoretical framework that integrates digital leadership and strategic vigilance as complementary institutional capabilities within the setting of Algerian public universities. Drawing on transformational leadership theory (Bass & Avolio, 1994), complexity leadership theory (Uhl-Bien & Arena, 2018), and the dynamic capabilities framework (Teece et al., 1997), the article argues that strategic vigilance—understood as an institution's structured capacity for environmental sensing and proactive adaptation—mediates the relationship between digital leadership and organizational effectiveness. The University of Djelfa, a regional public university in central Algeria, is used as an illustrative context to ground theoretical propositions in an emerging-economy reality shaped by centralized governance, resource constraints, and post-pandemic urgency. The framework contributes to theory by proposing a contextually sensitive model of leadership-driven institutional adaptation and offers four propositions for future empirical investigation. The article concludes with a comparative analysis of analogous transformation trajectories at the University of Jordan (MENA region) and the University of Edinburgh (global benchmark), revealing both convergent pressures and divergent institutional responses.

Keywords

digital leadership, strategic vigilance, organizational effectiveness, Algerian higher education, dynamic capabilities, transformational leadership, complexity leadership

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