The Impact of CEOs’ Transformational Leadership on Sustainable Organizational Innovation in SMEs: A Three-Wave Mediating Role of Organizational Learning and Psychological Empowerment

Sustainability

Yaser Iftikhar¹  Khalid Mehmood²  Enjun Xia³  Yan Li³  Saira Begum³ 

[1] Department of Business Administration, University of Sahiwal, Sahiwal 57000, Pakistan;School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China;School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing 100081, China;

关键词: transformational leadership;    small and medium-sized enterprises;    psychological empowerment;    organizational learning;    sustainable organizational innovation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su12208620

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The sustainable organizational innovation is of paramount importance for enhancing productivity in firms and provides organizations with the strategic direction needed to allow them to perform at an international level. The leadership styles play a key role in their firms’ potential to consistently innovate. Using data from a time-lagged design with three waves, CEOs of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) participated in the study. The findings reveal that psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and sustainable organizational innovation. Organizational learning was found to indirectly effect the relationship between transformational leadership and sustainable organizational innovation. It also demonstrated that psychological empowerment had a positive impact on organizational learning. The findings indicate the strategic significance of transformational leadership and its influence on sustainable organizational innovation for SMEs. Theoretical contributions and practical implications were also discussed.

【 授权许可】

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