Entrepreneurial leadership and innovativeness:The mediating role of team psychological safety

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In today’s dynamic and competitive environment organizations must innovate in order to survive. Researchers have identified a wide range of factors that affect innovativeness. Leadership is widely regarded as one of the most important of these factors. To be innovative, organizations may need entrepreneurial leaders who can mobilize the necessary resources and create the kind of visionary scenarios which commit followers to their work. Recently researchers have paid more attention to entrepreneurial leadership as a distinct form of leadership. Entrepreneurial leadership is regarded as a critical factor in the dynamics of economic development in the 21 st century and evolving style of leadership that might offer a signifiant break from the past. The field of entrepreneurial leadership is still in the early stages of conceptual and theoretical development. Despite the plausibility of expecting that entrepreneurial leadership would enhance innovativeness, little empirical research has been undertaken into the existence and nature of this link. This study investigated the mediating effect of team psychological safety on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and innovativeness. We developed a model to explain this relationship and tested it using data covering 54 supervisors and 257 subordinates from a range of organizations. The results of partial least square structural equation modeling analysis (PLS-SEM) showed that team psychological safety mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and team innovativeness. The current study contributes to the leadership literature by investigating the role of a new style of leadership which is the entrepreneurial leadership in fostering innovation in organizations. Also this study helps us understand the underlying mechanism through which entrepreneurial leadership promotes innovativeness. We discussed the implications of the findings and identify possible directions for future research.

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