The Journal of Social Sciences Research
ISSN(e): 2411-9458, ISSN(p): 2413-6670
Special Issue. 2, pp: 832-841, 2018
URL: https://arpgweb.com/journal/journal/7/special_issue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32861/jssr.spi2.832.841
Original Research
Academic Research Publishing
Group
Open Access
Does Digital Leadership Impact Directly or Indirectly on Dynamic Capability:
Case on Indonesia Telecommunication Industry in Digital Transformation?
Leonardus W Wasono Mihardjo*
Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia
Riza A.N. Rukmana
Telkom University, Indonesia
Abstract
Telecommunication sectors are the area where the digital disruption has taken significant influence to the incumbent
firms. The market become more competitive and dynamic, hence, it will be required the incumbent firms to
transform to have a dynamic capability. In digital era, The development of dynamic capability is driven from the role
of digital leader. According to digital disruption view, the activities process derived from the customer and market
orientation, and due to the nature of digital become global the alliance capability is important to study. Due to the
important role of digital leadership and limitation study on the effect digital leadership in developing dynamic
capability, this study will assess the effective path analysis of the role digital leadership in developing dynamic
capabilities. Does the digital leadership has direct influence to dynamic capability, or indirect influence through
market orientation capabilities or alliance capabilities?. The study was conducted on 88 respondents who are senior
level from Indonesia telecommunication companies. The statistical data analysis used Smart-PLS application. The
result explained that digital leadership impacts directly and indirectly through mediation variable of market
orientation.. While the mediation role of alliance capability has shown not significant influence in relationship
between dynamic capability and digital leadership.. This finding has implication on strategic initiative in dealing
dynamic capability, where the digital leadership shall focus on market orientation to create the optimal value to face
the current and future business challenges.
Keywords: Digital leadership; Dynamic capability; Market orientation; Alliances capabilities.
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1. Introduction
Phenomenon of technology disruptive has challenged for incumbent firm to adapt to the changing and
dynamical of market due to new business model brought by new entrances (Christensen, 1997). The incumbents did
not have the inertia to adapt the changing of environment and market based on the customer mainstreams
(Christensen and Bower, 1996). The innovation and management leader attentions focus on the innovation on exploit
the existing asset and less focus the market. Hence the institutional are required to transform to have dynamic
capability to renew business model innovation after disruptions (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom, 2002; Zott et al.,
2011). Dynamic capability is defined as a holistic approach of the firm ability to integrate, build and reconfigure
their resources and competence to address the changing of market environments’ (Teece et al., 1997). The capability
to reconfigure will create innovation and change the paradigm of management firm. This capability hereinafter
referred to as a transformation.
The transformation is essential to have better response and enabling business agility to optimize business
performance. In industry 4.0 where digital technology based on internet and cloud become more dominant, the
incumbent firm have to embark to digital transformation. Digital transformation mostly uses an innovation of
business model supported with the digital technology and applied in all aspects of human society (Stolterman and
Fors, 2004). Digital transformation is mostly started through digitization that dealing with technological innovation
(Kagermann, 2015). The case of book retail like borders in book industry is example of digital transformation from
physical books to e-books (Liu, 2012). The case of market orientation and the changing of customer and social
network due to Internet technology social has been discussed and become a main driver of incumbent to refocus the
strategy (Berman, 2012). Digital transformation requires the capability to do collaboration and form alliance strategy
(Belk, 2013; Berman, 2012) However, by the role of leader and human capital has significant influence in driving
the digital transformation, especially in term of decision-making process (Kohli R. and Johnson, 2011; Liu, 2012).
Study done by International Business Machine among 50 CEO in the world reveal to capture value from the
new technologies, incumbents need to have dynamic capability by increasing external knowledge access through
focus on market orientation and developing alliances capability (IBM Institute for Business Value, 2012). The leader
vision especially in bringing digital leadership vision is important to set up the direction and guidance for long term
in optimizing and reconfiguring new paradigm of transformation. The digital leadership has been introduced as the
combining of culture and competence of leader in bringing new architype in exploring the benefit of use digital
technology (Rudito and Sinaga, 2017; Wasono and Furinto, 2018). The study of Indonesia telecommunication
market is interested to explore since Indonesia is the early stage of digital era (Das et al., 2016) but in term of
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innovation growth, Indonesia is part of a country that has high growth of innovation during last couple years (IMD,
2017). There was gap between Indonesia nation competitiveness and digital infrastructure competitiveness. The
ranking of digital infrastructure was lack behind compare to Nation competitiveness (IMD, 2017). It is required
acceleration of Indonesia firm in digital transformation to support nation competitiveness. Hence exploring the
model digital transformation for incumbent firm in Indonesia are essential to be explored in development of dynamic
capability focus on the role of digital leadership.
In this paper, we intend to provide an empirical result on digital transformation for the role of digital leadership
in development of dynamic capability. We will discuss the following questions:
• Does the digital leadership impact directly or indirectly through market orientation or alliance capability on
dynamic capability for Indonesia telecommunication industry in digital Transformation?
• How does the effective path to transforms to form dynamic Capability?
This paper is organized as follows: the literature review will be discussed in Section 2, thus section 3 describes
the research methodology. The results, Discussion and implications of proposed digital transformations models are
presenting in section 4 and Section 5 respectively. Finally, section 6 will explain the conclusion and provides further
future study.
2. Literature Review
2.1. Dynamic Capability (DC)
DC theory addresses the issues associate with the inertia, routines activities and rigidities of strategic firm
resources and competences. It has been discussed and studies extensively since started published in science literature
(Teece et al., 1990). DC defined as the firm's ability to integrate, build, renew and reconfigure resources and
competencies either internal or external to adapt with the changing of environments (Teece et al., 1997). The study
of DC was forming the use of DC as a process of organization learning to create new market by integrating,
reconfiguring, gaining and releasing resources (Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000).
This DC concept is aligned with the need of incumbent firm to have agility in adapting change of market and
environment in disruptive market. In organization theory the dynamic capability is the organization capability to
have the ability for learning and change. On response to learning and change, the incumbent firm can build
innovation capability by alignment of exploration and exploitation (O’Reilly and Tushman, 2008), discontinuous
change (Martin and Eisenhardt, 2004) and on radical innovation capabilities (O’Connor et al., 2008). The
intangible of knowledge and learning is part of distinct management capability that enable the organization to have
adaptive capability by building on the stock of existing knowledge in new domains (Cattani, 2008). The leadership
and strategic vision are important to ensure the alignment, integration and interaction between top-management
cognition in building strategic decision-making and for reconfiguring the firm resources base (Martin, 2010).
Based on the literature above, this paper will use dimension of adaptive capability, innovation capability,
management capability and strategic capability.
2.2. Digital Leadership
In Digital transformation, the role of leader is a central to driving fast decision-making process and propelling
the change (Kohli R. and Johnson, 2011; Liu, 2012). Digital leadership is combination of leadership style of
transformation leadership and the uses of digital technology. Digital Leadership is defined as the combination of
culture and competence of leader in optimizing the use of digital technology to create value to the firms (Rudito and
Sinaga, 2017).
It has the leadership characteristics as follow: technology leadership, digital visioning and digital execution
(Rudito and Sinaga, 2017). Another study found that There are 5 characteristics: creative leader, though leader,
global visionary leader, inquisitive leader and profound leader (Zhu, 2015). Since the competition become tight and
hyper and complex dynamic of ecosystem due VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) factors,
hence the leader is required to be creative and always thinking innovative through in build capability or collaboration
(Sandel, 2013). The Global Visionary Leader is required to provide direction and to become an orchestra in
transforming the digital business transformation. the digital technology based on internet and cloud drive the
knowledge base, hence the leader has to have ability Inquisitive learning and has profound ability in knowledge and
understand in depth in learning and change.
In disruptive era, the role of digital leadership has impact in driving the innovation and (Wasono and Furinto,
2018). Hence based on the literature review, the dimension use for this study are creative, deep knowledge, Global
vision and collaboration, thinker, inquisitive.
2.3. Market Orientation
The market orientation has been studied extensively as the framework concept of the ability of firm to create
value to the firm by focusing on customer, competitors, and coordination across function (Narver and Slater, 1990).
The market orientation concept consists of behavior and cultural approach (Gaur et al., 2011)(. In behavior
approach, market orientation is defined as activities focus on increasing customer satisfaction (Kohli A. K. and
Jaworski, 1990), and in cultural approach, it defines as values and believe of the firm to put customer as first
orientation (Narver and Slater, 1990).
In disruption era, the market orientation, especially customer orientation is critical in sustaining the business, the
use of analytical application is required to customize and personalize service to match with customers (Berman,
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2012). The analytical data can provide intelligent generation of customer profile and also has intelligent
dissemination based on customer profiling hence the company has ability to learn and responsive to the environment
and market change (Protcko and Utz, 2014).
This study uses the dimension as Intelligence generation, Intelligence dissemination, and Responsiveness align
with study done by Protcko and Utz (2014) in response to disruptive era and digital transformation.
2.4. Alliance Capability
The new entrants employing new disruptive models tends to represent a threat and induces incumbents to
respond rapidly, through ―alliances and acquisitions‖ to speed up the process and minimize the gap with competitors.
Study of the fail incumbent can be identified due to two caused: (1) Not proper resources allocation of incumbent
firms, and (2) late anticipate the changing environments. Hence, incumbent firms need to form alliance capability
and collaboration to match with emergence of entrants (Belk, 2013; Berman, 2012).
The alliance capability can be developed through vertical and horizontal relation (Cravens et al., 2013). Vertical
relation is defined as external relation with suppliers and customers relation where both or more parties form the
alliance collaboration to create value. The relation type widely scopes from transactional relation up to alliance
relation form the equity partnership. Horizontal relation is associated with internal and network or lateral relation.
Internal relation is interrelated among business units and individuals. The lateral relation is linked to network
connection among other firms to create the similar objectives.
Hence according to literature review the dimension constructs of Alliance Capability consists of customer
alliance, supplier alliance, internal alliance and lateral alliance.
2.5. Hypothesis Development and Research Model
The relation of digital leadership and alliances capability and dynamic capability has been found in study on the
non-linearity pattern of alliance capability (Khorakian and Salehi, 2015; Schweitzer, 2013). The impact of leadership
to market orientation and customer was discussed in previous study as well (Petrick et al., 1999). In disruptive the
relation of digital leadership to dynamic capability in Indonesia market is studied by Wasono and Furinto (2018).
Based on this, the hypothesis is formulated as following:
Hypothesis 1: Digital leadership has direct impact to dynamic capability, alliance capability in the Indonesian
telecommunication industry.
Khorakian and Salehi (2015) showed the mediation role of partnership on relationship of leadership and
dynamic capability as well as the role of intervening of Market orientation (Dmour et al., 2012). According to these
studies, the hypothesis is formulated as the following:
Hypothesis 2: Digital Leadership has indirect impact on Dynamic capability by mediating variable of market
orientation in the Indonesian telecommunication industry.
Hypothesis 3: Digital Leadership has indirect impact on Dynamic capability by mediating variable of Alliance
capability in the Indonesian telecommunication industry.
Hence, Figure 1 below demonstrates the current research model.
Figure-1. Research Model
3. Methodology
This study uses a quantitative research design. The units of analysis in this study are telecommunication firms in
Indonesia with the management of these firms as the observed unit. The sampling method used is purposive
sampling. The questioner study has done from November 2017-January 2018. According to Hair et al. (2014) the
recommended sample size is 52 respondents for the model with an endogenous construct has 2 arrows directed, 0.05
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significance level, 80% statistical power and minimum R2 = 0.25. The sample size is made up of 88 respondent
higher than the recommended sample. The sample has 75% of as General manager and manager and the rest 25% is
VP and Board leader.. 88% respondents are men and 12% are women. 83% respondents come from network
provider, while 17% from service providers.. Data were collected via self-assessment through an online
questionnaire and distributed through messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and email. Since there is a limitation of data
sample, the statistical a tool of analysis is SmartPLS.
4. Result
4.1. Evaluation of Measurement (Outer Model)
The analysis of the outer model specifies the relationship between latent variables and their indicators. Tests
performed on outer models include:
Convergent Validity. The value of convergent validity is the value of loading factor on the latent variable with
its indicators. The expected value is above 0.7.
Discriminant Validity is a value of cross loading factor that is useful to assess whether the constructs have
adequate discriminant by comparing the loading value on the intended construct is greater than the loading value
with other constructs.
Composite Reliability. Data that has composite reliability over 0.7 considered as highly reliable.
Average Variance Extracted (AVE), expected to be more than 0.5.
Cronbach Alpha. Reliability test reinforced with Cronbach Alpha. The result is expected to have value of more
than 0.6 for all constructs.
Table -1. Construct Validity and Reliability Test
Cronbach's Alpha rho_A Composite Reliability AVE Result
Digital leadership
Creative
Deep Knowledge
Global Vision and Collaboration
Thinker
Inquisitive
Market Orientation
Intelligent Generation
Intelligent Dissemination
Responsiveness
Alliance Capabilities
Internal Alliance
Customer Alliance
Supplier Alliance
Lateral Alliance
Dynamic Capabilities
Adaptive Capabilities
Innovation Capability
Management Capabilities
Strategic Capability
0.872
0.913
0.931
0.915
0.945
0.875
0.916
0.933
0.915
0.946
0.912
0.939
0.951
0.946
0.960
0.723
0.794
0.830
0.854
0.858
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
0.876
0.791
0.920
0.879 0.907
0.821 0.866
0.927 0.935
0.619 Valid
0.622 Valid
0.646 Valid
0.948
0.857
0.908
0.922
0.949
0.859
0.912
0.925
0.975
0.933
0.943
0.945
0.951
0.875
0.845
0.812
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
0.917
0.817
0.915
0.851
0.918
0.826
0.922
0.865
0.948
0.892
0.940
0.900
0.858
0.734
0.797
0.694
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Table 1 above shows that AVE value> 0.5, Cronbach Alpha> 0.6 and composite reliability> 0.7, which indicates
that research variables have good reliability for all variables and dimensions.
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Dimensions
Adaptive Capabilities
1
2
3
4
Table-2. Discriminant Validity
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
0.926
Customer Alliance
0.710 0.935
Deep Knowledge
0.581 0.784 0.891
Global Vision &
Collaboration
0.537 0.729 0.878 0.911
Innovation Capability
0.765 0.732 0.684 0.607 0.857
Inquisitive
0.602 0.710 0.794 0.895 0.609 0.927
Intelligent
Dissemination
0.684 0.734 0.644 0.588 0.700 0.597 0.789
Intelligent Generation
0.795 0.699 0.595 0.608 0.749 0.668 0.702 0.786
Internal Alliance
0.559 0.826 0.727 0.666 0.625 0.678 0.684 0.584 0.975
Lateral Alliance
0.696 0.763 0.697 0.614 0.694 0.671 0.689 0.661 0.721 0.901
Management
Capabilities
0.779 0.808 0.801 0.729 0.789 0.754 0.747 0.746 0.749 0.709 0.893
Responsiveness
0.790 0.796 0.667 0.615 0.788 0.649 0.831 0.839 0.696 0.685 0.859 0.804
Strategic Capability
0.869 0.771 0.649 0.597 0.812 0.650 0.691 0.788 0.654 0.708 0.832 0.845 0.833
Supplier Alliance
0.590 0.759 0.799 0.728 0.660 0.725 0.627 0.581 0.779 0.770 0.696 0.665 0.637 0.919
Thinker
0.529 0.659 0.838 0.925 0.588 0.880 0.564 0.584 0.652 0.577 0.736 0.599 0.607 0.734 0.924
creative
0.808 0.797 0.729 0.665 0.811 0.661 0.697 0.739 0.624 0.734 0.815 0.782 0.774 0.691 0.628 0.850
Discriminant validity is shown in Table 2 with the diagonal bold numbers indicating the square root of AVE.
This shows that all dimensions have good discriminant validity.
The value of convergent validity is the value of the loading factor of outer path analysis where t-value> 1.96 and
p-value < 0.05. This means that each indicator is valid
Table-3. Outer Path Analysis
AC1 <- Adaptive Capabilities
AC2 <- Adaptive Capabilities
AC3 <- Adaptive Capabilities
IC1 <- Innovation Capability
IC2 <- Innovation Capability
IC3 <- Innovation Capability
ID1 <- Intelligent Dissemination
ID3 <- Intelligent Dissemination
ID4 <- Intelligent Dissemination
IG1 <- Intelligent Generation
IG2 <- Intelligent Generation
IG3 <- Intelligent Generation
IG4 <- Intelligent Generation
IG5 <- Intelligent Generation
IG6 <- Intelligent Generation
IT1 <- Inquisitive
IT2 <- Inquisitive
IT3 <- Inquisitive
IT4 <- Inquisitive
K1 <- creative
K2 <- creative
K3 <- creative
K4 <- creative
KC1 <- Customer Alliance
KC2 <- Customer Alliance
KI1 <- Internal Alliance
KI2 <- Internal Alliance
KL1 <- Lateral Alliance
KL2 <- Lateral Alliance
KL3 <- Lateral Alliance
KL4 <- Lateral Alliance
KS1 <- Supplier Alliance
KS2 <- Supplier Alliance
Path
0.952
0.923
0.903
0.891
0.894
0.780
0.596
0.886
0.798
0.771
0.746
0.841
0.756
0.801
0.799
0.917
0.940
0.903
0.946
0.756
0.910
0.864
0.864
0.939
0.932
0.974
0.976
0.863
0.930
0.885
0.924
0.931
0.935
Standard Deviation
0.012
0.020
0.028
0.025
0.021
0.059
0.091
0.029
0.048
0.047
0.059
0.031
0.044
0.053
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.022
0.016
0.040
0.020
0.042
0.048
0.014
0.017
0.008
0.007
0.047
0.015
0.027
0.015
0.017
0.019
T Statistics
80.626
46.717
32.289
35.495
41.862
13.134
6.553
30.424
16.716
16.303
12.713
27.157
17.117
15.103
20.310
45.761
51.452
41.634
60.111
18.843
45.009
20.365
18.022
69.270
54.643
116.969
136.270
18.350
63.043
32.732
61.064
54.462
48.761
P Values
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
Result
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
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KS3 <- Supplier Alliance
MC1 <- Management Capabilities
MC2 <- Management Capabilities
MC3 <- Management Capabilities
MC4 <- Management Capabilities
P1 <- Thinker
P2 <- Thinker
P3 <- Thinker
PM1 <- Deep Knowledge
PM2 <- Deep Knowledge
PM3 <- Deep Knowledge
PM4 <- Deep Knowledge
R1 <- Responsiveness
R2 <- Responsiveness
R3 <- Responsiveness
R4 <- Responsiveness
R5 <- Responsiveness
R6 <- Responsiveness
R7 <- Responsiveness
R8 <- Responsiveness
SC1 <- Strategic Capability
SC2 <- Strategic Capability
SC3 <- Strategic Capability
SC4 <- Strategic Capability
VG1 <- Global Vision and Collaboration
VG2 <- Global Vision and Collaboration
VG3 <- Global Vision and Collaboration
VG4 <- Global Vision and Collaboration
0.892
0.919
0.862
0.881
0.909
0.916
0.930
0.927
0.844
0.901
0.913
0.905
0.768
0.873
0.698
0.899
0.870
0.777
0.831
0.687
0.879
0.902
0.771
0.771
0.925
0.921
0.879
0.918
0.034
0.018
0.033
0.031
0.020
0.018
0.015
0.019
0.036
0.025
0.018
0.023
0.051
0.038
0.073
0.024
0.034
0.063
0.049
0.092
0.022
0.024
0.050
0.062
0.021
0.019
0.052
0.017
26.090
51.247
25.971
28.236
44.517
50.219
61.855
48.787
23.407
35.344
50.121
40.131
14.970
23.187
9.519
36.787
25.578
12.394
16.838
7.442
39.681
38.221
15.270
12.355
44.591
48.985
16.749
52.758
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid
Table 4 shows that all constructs have a path coefficient score with t-statistics >1.96 and p-value = 0.000 <0.05,
which means that all constructs have significant effects on their respective dimensions.
4.2. Structural Model (Inner Model)
Based on the blindfolding score results, Q2 was obtained for alliance capabilities = 0.461 ,market orientation =
0.285, and dynamic capability = 0.510. If Q2 >0, it indicates that the structural model has adequate predictive
relevance. Hence, the model is robust and hypothesis testing can be done. The complete finding can be shown in
Figure 2.
Figure-2. Complete Path Diagram of Research Model
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4.3. Hypothesis Testing
The hypothesis testing can be accomplished through partial Test and simultaneous test to know the impact of
respective Variable and dimension. The result of hypothesis testing can be shown in Table 4.
Table -4. Testing of Hypothesis
Partial Test
Digital leadership -> Alliance Capabilities
Digital leadership -> Dynamic Capabilities
Digital leadership -> Market Orientation
Alliance Capabilities -> Dynamic Capabilities
Market Orientation -> Dynamic Capabilities
Path
0.839
0.189
0.754
0.153
0.639
Standard Deviation
0.034
0.090
0.044
0.092
0.073
T Statistics
24.752
2.099
17.147
1.655
8.718
P Values
0.000
0.036
0.000
0.098
0.000
Result
Supported
Supported
Supported
Not Supported
Supported
* significant at =0.05 (T statistics > 1.96)
Simultaneous Test
Path
Digital leadership -> Alliance
0.128
Capabilities -> Dynamic Capabilities
Digital leadership -> Market
0.482
Orientation -> Dynamic Capabilities
Standard Deviation T Statistics P Values Result
0.078
1.649
0.099
Not Supported
0.061
7.946
0.000
Supported
* significant at =0.05 (T statistics > 1.96)
Table 4 shows that within the degree of confidence of 95% (=0.05), where T>1.96 and p<0.05, there is
supportive influence of digital leadership on alliance capability, digital leadership on dynamic capability, digital
leadership on market orientation and market orientation on dynamic capability, whereas alliance capability has no
direct effect on dynamic capability. On simultaneous test, it shown that digital leadership indirect impact on dynamic
capability mediated by market orientation and not indirect effect on dynamic capability if intervened by alliances
capability
The direct effect test shows that the relationship between digital leadership and dynamic capability has a path
coefficient score of 0.189 with t-statistics = 2.099 and p-value = 0.036<0.05. This means that H0 is rejected and H1
is accepted. This proves that digital leadership has a significant impact on dynamic capability. The second
assessment is the relationship between digital leadership and alliance capability has a path coefficient score of 0.839
with t-statistics = 24.752 and p-value = 0.000. This means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. This proves that
digital leadership has a significant impact on alliance capability. The assessment on relationship digital leadership on
market orientation has shown has a path coefficient score of 0.754 with t-statistics = 17.147 and p-value = 0.000.
This means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. This proves that digital leadership has a significant impact on
market orientation. While the relation between alliance capability with dynamic capability has a path coefficient
score of 0.153 with t-statistics = 1.655 and p-value = 0.098>0.05. This means that H0 is accepted while H2 is
rejected. There is also no significant impact of alliance capability on dynamic capability. Lastly, the relationship
between market orientation and dynamic capability has a path coefficient score of 0.639 with t-statistics = 8.718 and
p-value = 0.000. This means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. This also proves that market orientation has a
supportive impact on dynamic capability.
The indirect effect test shows that the mediating role of market orientation has a path coefficient score=0,482
with t-statistics = 7.946 and p-value = 0.000. This means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. This proves that
market orientation has supportive impact as mediating role on relationship between dynamic capability and digital
leadership. While, the mediating role of alliance capability has a path coefficient score of 0.128 with t-statistics =
1.649 and p-value = 0.099>0.05. This means that H0 is accepted while H2 is rejected. There is also no significant
impact of alliance capability in mediating role on relationship between dynamic capability and alliance capability.
5. Discussion and Implication
The results are aligned with the study on disruption technology and innovation conducted by Christensen
(1997), Markides (2006), and Khorakian and Salehi (2015) where the incumbent firm should adapt the changing of
customer and market to sustain and driving digital transformation. digital leadership has a direct and indirect to
dynamic capability mediated by market orientation. Global vision and collaboration bring significant value to digital
leadership followed by inquisitive, deep knowledge and thinker. This finding supports Rudito and Sinaga (2017) and
Wasono and Furinto (2018), who found that digital leadership supporting innovation capability in disruptive era.
This finding brings the implication for incumbent firms to use digital leadership to establish dynamic capability
through direct and indirect mediated by market orientation. While, the mediating role of alliance capability is not
impact on relationship between dynamic capability and digital leadership.
Market orientation is formulated by dominant responsiveness followed by intelligent generation and intelligent
dissemination capability. These findings indicate that in term of market orientation, the culture and behaviour of the
management and firms that adaptive to the change and responsive to the market create the value to customer and
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firms themselves. This finding align with the study before done by, Protcko and Utz (2014) and Narver and Slater
(1990).
The dynamic capability is dominant influenced by strategic capability, followed by management capability,
adaptive capability and innovation capability. It means that the long-term view of management and firm in
anticipating the market dynamic is important for incumbent firms. This is indicating that the long-term view through
transformation is taken priority for incumbent firm in facing disruptive era.
The alliances capability as mediating role was not supporting in relationship of dynamic capability and digital
leadership. This finding shown the important in development of internal capability rather than the alliance strategy.
Based on resources-based view that provide the distinctive organization capability is important through providing
internal resources that valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and on-substitutable capabilities (Barney, 1991).
Incumbent firms are required to develop the core competence to compete with new entrance in disruptive era.
6. Implication
The findings reveal the antecedents of digital transformation. According to the result finding, We configure the
model of digital transformation for Indonesia incumbent firms base on a framework study conducted by Mader
(2012) as shown in figure 3.
Figure-3. Digital Transformation Model based on Mader’s Framework (2012) (source: maider and internal analysis)
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which are digital innovation and effective cost reduction. The market orientation could drive customer experience
since with distinctive capabilities it could create personalize to customer. After getting the customer experience the
customer is the major partner in building product and service together called by co-creation. Crowdsourcing with
customer could provide long-term and long tail partnership. By the end of the day the culture innovation in creating
business model will become the new paradigm of incumbent firms in facing digital transformation.
7. Conclusion, Limitation and Further Study
7.1. Conclusion
Based on the results of hypotheses testing, it can be concluded that digital leadership has direct and indirect
impact to dynamic capability, where the market orientation has a mediating role on relationship between dynamic
capability and digital leadership. The alliance capability was not a mediating role in the relationship of dynamic
capability and digital leadership.
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7.2. Limitation and Further Study
This study has limitation in term of time and sample, hence further study can be explored using a more extended
sampling, industry and with consideration of markets outside of Indonesia. A longitudinal research design should
also be done to assure the digital transformation model.
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