Three Decades of Individual Capabilities of Strategic Leaders: "A Theoretical-Analytical Review"

Abstract

The research aims to review the types of individual capabilities of the strategic leader by reviewing the views of researchers announced in books and research, in addition to university theses and dissertations, as well as scientific conferences, all presented over three decades starting from 1990 until 2022, which produced twenty-nine individual capabilities of the strategic leader, then analyzing the content that they came with from a theoretical perspective to determine the official identity of these capabilities that the strategic leader must possess during the twenty-first century. The theoretical review resulted in identifying the research problem represented by the absence of agreement among most researchers according to their proposed views on the nature of the types of individual capabilities that the strategic leader must possess. Accordingly, the research problem was raised in light of the following question: Are the individual capabilities of the strategic leader that researchers have addressed during the last three decades an expression of these capabilities? To address the research problem, the research adopted the following hypothesis: “The individual capabilities of the strategic leader vary according to the opinions of researchers over the past three decades.” From here, the researchers resorted to adopting the content analysis method to describe the content of those opinions presented over time. The research concluded with a set of data, foremost of which was the variation and absence of agreement among researchers regarding the individual capabilities of the strategic leader, in addition to indicating some other data that could answer the research problem.