Furqan Habib - Department of Engineering Management Centre of Advanced Studies in Engineering, Ataturk Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Abubakr Afridi - Department of Engineering Management Centre of Advanced Studies in Engineering, Ataturk Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan.

In today’s global and electronic corporate environment virtual teams and far flung detached work units becoming more and more important for business leadership. Although significant research has been carried out in role of leadership for ever increasing virtual processes, emphasizing increased adjustment in empowerment and process management theories, little has been investigated on the emerging roles of leadership in perspective of virtual process ownership. This research article is focused on the framework of leadership traits for virtual environment and in particular its importance for process ownership in the varied process reengineering situations. A research study of aircraft spares supply chain involving detached work units and virtual processes has been made. The outcome was the identification of the mediating variables necessary to explain leadership influence on process ownership. In the end we have presented a differentiating framework for which virtual processes demands new knowledge applications for preserving and evolving leadership for process owner complex virtual tasks.

Process Owner, Leadership, Dispersed Business Units