Navigating the digital transformation path: The role of digital leadership and technological capability through the dynamic capability model

Takyi, Kwabena Nsiah; Miloslava, Chovancová; Bludo, George Yaw; Aloysius, Sabog

Navigating the digital transformation path: The role of digital leadership and technological capability through the dynamic capability model

Management & Marketing

Volume 20 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)

By:

Kwabena Nsiah Takyi

, Chovancová Miloslava, George Yaw Bludo and Sabog Aloysius

Open Access

|Sep 2025

Figures & Tables

Structural model: Direct and indirect paths.

Cross loadings_

	DIGIC	DIGIL	DIGIT	ENTP	TECH
DIGIC1	0.796	0.561	0.735	0.586	0.701
DIGIC2	0.875	0.622	0.726	0.591	0.763
DIGIC3	0.902	0.616	0.708	0.586	0.767
DIGIC4	0.924	0.633	0.763	0.582	0.805
DIGIL1	0.640	0.905	0.718	0.835	0.642
DIGIL2	0.620	0.911	0.684	0.825	0.612
DIGIL3	0.635	0.915	0.705	0.832	0.610
DIGIL4	0.581	0.893	0.638	0.742	0.567
DIGIL5	0.627	0.845	0.730	0.646	0.628
DIGIT1	0.632	0.549	0.813	0.563	0.569
DIGIT2	0.687	0.653	0.864	0.650	0.611
DIGIT3	0.754	0.752	0.910	0.766	0.735
DIGIT4	0.649	0.711	0.825	0.677	0.605
DIGIT5	0.765	0.555	0.744	0.505	0.882
ENTP1	0.589	0.684	0.634	0.857	0.542
ENTP2	0.568	0.758	0.691	0.915	0.561
ENTP3	0.594	0.739	0.679	0.897	0.543
ENTP4	0.620	0.842	0.694	0.896	0.585
ENTP5	0.609	0.831	0.703	0.881	0.601
TECH1	0.864	0.639	0.733	0.602	0.871
TECH2	0.690	0.534	0.683	0.493	0.881
TECH3	0.730	0.620	0.730	0.564	0.892
TECH4	0.798	0.623	0.750	0.595	0.923
TECH5	0.785	0.637	0.752	0.583	0.897

HTMT evaluation_

Constructs	DIGIC	DIGIL	DIGIT	ENTP
DIGIC
DIGIL	0.757
DIGIT	0.800	0.847
ENTP	0.732	0.726	0.834
TECH	0.845	0.729	0.696	0.679

Demographic profile of respondents_

Demographic variable	Frequency	Percentage
Gender
Male	238	52
Female	221	48
Age (in years)
≤25	41	8.93
26–35	203	44.23
36–45	137	29.85
46–55	51	11.11
Above 55	27	5.88
Education
HND	56	12.20
Bachelors	262	57.08
Masters	119	25.93
PhD	22	4.79
Working experience
Less than 5	70	15.25
5–10	263	57.30
11–15	94	20.48
16–20	28	6.10
Above 20	4	0.87
Position
Top	66	14.38
Middle	195	42.48
Junior	163	35.51
Front liner	35	7.63

Direct effect and moderation effect_

	Path	Beta	Std. dev.	T-statistics	Confidence interval	Conclusion
H1	DIGIL → DIGIT	0.340	0.046	7.325	[0.196; 0.350]	Accepted
H2	DIGIL → TECH	0.686	0.033	20.70	[0.618; 0.748]	Accepted
H3	TECH → DIGIT	0.253	0.057	4.463	[0.197; 0.396]	Accepted
H4	DIGIT → ENTP	0.766	0.026	29.673	[0.713; 0.815]	Accepted
H5	DIGIC → DIGIT	0.382	0.049	7.784	[0.258; 0.440]	Accepted
H5a	DIGIL* DIGIC → DIGIT	0.147	0.021	6.919	[0.099; 0.182]	Accepted

Item loadings, CR, CA average, and variance extracted_

Construct	Item	Loadings	CR	CA	AVE	VIF
Digital culture	DIGIC1	0.796	0.929	0.897	0.767	1.746
	DIGIC2	0.875				2.545
	DIGIC3	0.902				4.179
	DIGIC4	0.924				4.543
Digital leadership	DIGIL1	0.905	0.952	0.937	0.800	4.026
	DIGIL2	0.911				4.663
	DIGIL3	0.915				4.400
	DIGIL4	0.893				3.723
	DIGIL5	0.845				2.719
Digital transformation	DIGIT1	0.813	0.919	0.888	0.694	2.459
	DIGIT2	0.864				3.064
	DIGIT3	0.910				3.436
	DIGIT4	0.825				2.247
	DIGIT5	0.744				1.650
Enterprise performance	ENTP1	0.857	0.950	0.934	0.791	3.019
	ENTP2	0.915				4.444
	ENTP3	0.897				3.536
	ENTP4	0.896				3.522
	ENTP5	0.881				3.235
Technological capability	TECH1	0.871	0.952	0.936	0.797	2.756
	TECH2	0.881				3.469
	TECH3	0.892				3.532
	TECH4	0.923				4.613
	TECH5	0.897				3.788

Mediating effect and specific indirect effects_

Path	Impact of IV on M (a)	Impact of M on D (b)	DI (c′)	Indirect impact (a × b)	Total impact (c = c′ + a × b)	VAF	Decision
DIGIL → TECH → DIGIT	0.686	0.253	0.340	0.173	0.513	33.7%	Partial mediation
			Beta	Std. dev.	T -stats	P -value
DIGIC → DIGIT → ENTP			0.271	0.037	7.296	0.000	Accepted
DIGIL → DIGIT → ENTP			0.211	0.033	6.300	0.000	Accepted
TECH → DIGIT → ENTP			0.221	0.036	6.124	0.000	Accepted

Fornell–Larcker Criterion, R2, and Q2_

Constructs	DIGIC	DIGIL	DIGIT	OP	TECH	R ²	Adjusted R ²	Q ²
DIGIC	0.876
DIGIL	0.696	0.894
DIGIT	0.839	0.779	0.833			0.812	0.810	0.547
ENTP	0.670	0.868	0.766	0.889		0.586	0.585	0.460
TECH	0.868	0.686	0.818	0.637	0.893	0.470	0.469	0.369

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2025-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2069-8887 | Journal ISSN: 1842-0206

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Language: English

Page range: 48 - 64

Submitted on: May 31, 2025

Accepted on: Sep 9, 2025

Published on: Sep 30, 2025

Published by: Society for Business Excellence

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 times per year

Keywords:

Digital leadership,

Digital transformation,

Digital culture,

Technological capability,

Dynamic capability theory

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Marketing, sales, customer relations,

Management, organization, corporate governance,

Business development, change management, cooperation,

Entrepreneurship

© 2025 Kwabena Nsiah Takyi, Chovancová Miloslava, George Yaw Bludo, Sabog Aloysius, published by Society for Business Excellence
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Cross loadings_

HTMT evaluation_

Demographic profile of respondents_

Direct effect and moderation effect_

Item loadings, CR, CA average, and variance extracted_

Mediating effect and specific indirect effects_

Fornell–Larcker Criterion, R2, and Q2_

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