TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformational leadership, social capital and organizational innovation
AU - Chen, Lu
AU - Zheng, Wei
AU - Yang, Baiyin
AU - Bai, Shuaijiao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © Chen, Zheng, Yang and Bai.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the forces driving organizational innovation, particularly CEO transformational leadership as it affects external and internal social capital in top management teams. Design/methodology/approach: Survey questionnaires were administered to 90 Chinese top management teams. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships. Findings: Both internal and external social capital mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation. Practical implications: Organizations should strengthen internal and external capital of top management teams to reap maximal innovation outcomes from transformational leadership. Originality/value: The findings contribute to the transformational leadership, social capital, and innovation literature first by showing how leadership influences innovation through largely neglected mechanisms – internal and external social capital. Second, a social capital focus challenges the tacit assumption that transformational leadership has only internal influences by showing that it potentially spills over to the external domain.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the forces driving organizational innovation, particularly CEO transformational leadership as it affects external and internal social capital in top management teams. Design/methodology/approach: Survey questionnaires were administered to 90 Chinese top management teams. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships. Findings: Both internal and external social capital mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation. Practical implications: Organizations should strengthen internal and external capital of top management teams to reap maximal innovation outcomes from transformational leadership. Originality/value: The findings contribute to the transformational leadership, social capital, and innovation literature first by showing how leadership influences innovation through largely neglected mechanisms – internal and external social capital. Second, a social capital focus challenges the tacit assumption that transformational leadership has only internal influences by showing that it potentially spills over to the external domain.
KW - Organizational innovation
KW - Social capital
KW - Top management team
KW - Transformational leadership
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U2 - 10.1108/LODJ-07-2015-0157
DO - 10.1108/LODJ-07-2015-0157
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84985023592
SN - 0143-7739
VL - 37
SP - 843
EP - 859
JO - Leadership and Organization Development Journal
JF - Leadership and Organization Development Journal
IS - 7
ER -