How leadership matters in organizational innovation: a perspective of openness
Summary. Transformational leadership enhances organizational innovation while transactional leadership reduces it. The study reveals that leadership styles work through two mechanisms: openness breadth (absorbing diverse external knowledge) and openness depth (integrating that knowledge deeply). Both mechanisms mediate how different leadership approaches affect innovation performance in organizations.
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Xiao, J., Chen, J., Mei, L., & Wu, Q.. (2017). How leadership matters in organizational innovation: a perspective of openness. Management Decision. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2017-0415
Xiao, Jia, et al. “How leadership matters in organizational innovation: a perspective of openness.” Management Decision, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2017-0415.
Xiao, Jia, Jin Chen, Liang Mei, and Qian Wu. 2017. “How leadership matters in organizational innovation: a perspective of openness.” Management Decision. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2017-0415.
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- DOI
- 10.1108/md-04-2017-0415
- Countries
- China
- Regions
- Asia
- Categories
- innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28