Leadership challenges in the context of university 4.0. A thematic synthesis literature review

Supported by an environment that is increasingly immersed in digital transformation, universities are facing important organizational changes both tangible and intangible structures. Digital transformation isn’t all about technology, there a human side of the story. Leadership seen as key issue any process change. However, leaders professional knowledge-based institutions, like universities, face special demands. The present article aims to synthesize what has been investigated leadership context University 4.0. A systematic approach was adopted conducting literature review. main body focuses on illustrating five thematic clusters grounded identifying co-citation network each cluster using bibliometrics. Results demonstrate this emerging theme. This paper first attempt systematically review research so far made available broad field