How pandemic and the industry 4.0 era constraint: the perspective of authentic leadership on innovation

The COVID-19 crisis brought the importance of interdisciplinary knowledge to the forefront. Scholars carry out online communication and learning, instead of relying on face-to-face meetings at the conference, and are more proactive in disseminating their research online, which will achieve more success due to the higher number of readers citations. Remote work behaviour facilitated technology adoption in the era of industry 4.0 will affect company innovation. Then the authentic leaders who have the vision and views in industry 4.0 and are faced with pandemics will increase the level of innovation of these leaders. This research cannot be generalized to the industry in general but can be a reference for future researchers.