The influence of leadership on product and process innovations in China: The contingent role of knowledge acquisition capability
By Jeanine Chang, X. Bai, Julie Juan Li. 2015
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Abstract Building upon upper echelon theory and a dynamic capability perspective, this study investigates the relative effectiveness of two types of leadership on product and process innovations in emerging economies. The authors found that in China transformational-charismatic (TC) leadership has a stronger effect on product innovation, while transactional leadership has a stronger effect on process innovation. The authors further study the boundary conditions of leadership and empirically examine the contingent effects of organizational level capability on the relationships between leadership and innovation. The moderating effects are intriguing: knowledge acquisition capability strengthens the effect of TC leadership on process innovation and that of transactional leadership on product innovation. However, knowledge acquisition capability attenuates the positive relationship between TC leadership and product innovation as well as the positive relationship between transactional leadership and process innovation.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Authentic and transformational leadership and innovative work behaviour: the moderating role of psychological empowerment (2020, background): “Leadership is recognized by researchers as one of the critical factors influencing creative behaviour (Chang et al., 2015) and innovation.”
- Transformational and transactional leadership and employee’s entrepreneurial behavior in knowledge–intensive industries (2017, background): “China has realized that apart from human capital, it needs to invest heavily on education and research, R&D, entrepreneurship, and innovation among individuals (Chang et al., 2015; Sun et al., 2012).”
- The Role of a Leader in Stimulating Innovation in an Organization (2020, background): “The subfactor of contingent reward correlates positively with innovative behavior (Chang et al. 2015).”