On Leadership for Sustainable Management of Mobile Telecommunications Systems

The sustainability of technological systems, such as cellular mobile telecommunications networks, is paramount in the current era of Society 5.0 as propelled by fourth industrial revolution technologies. Mobile telecommunications systems pervade all aspects of human endeavor in the sense that they not only facilitate hyper interconnectivity and inter-communicability between individuals but also, telecommunications systems encourage high levels of interdependency between all actors, agents, and man-made elements utilized by society for governance, commerce, and industry. In conjunction with the imperatives of the sustainability paradigm, issues such as rapidly evolving technologies, increasing regulatory concerns, complex business relations and vagarious consumer expectations present serious challenges for the management of mobile telecommunications systems. This paper discusses an empirical examination of the role of leadership as part of an on-going study of sustainable management of mobile telecommunications systems.