...Muhammad Arshad; Zeng Xiong Yang; Bilal Afsar; Mahfooz Ali Purpose In contemporary organizational settings, fostering knowledge sharing is essential for enhancing innovation and sustaining competitiveness. However, workplace stressors such as role conflict, relationship conflict and psychological...

...Anne H. Swearingen; Danielle Ailts Campeau; Nathaniel Siats; Matthew J. Nowakowski Purpose The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of ten (10) product innovation employees in medical device firms’ sustainability initiatives, considering leadership, organizational...

...Lei Xie; Guangping Li; Xinyi Bian Purpose The study specifically focused on ethical leadership and help seeking during innovation and tested the moderating effect of happiness on the path from help seeking to innovation. Design/methodology/approach In this longitudinal study, 472 employees...

...Makhmoor Bashir; M. Muzamil Naqshbandi; Anish Yousaf Purpose Research in the area of business model innovation (BMI) has focused on theoretical and exploratory discussions, thereby creating a lack of empirical evidence on the role of top management in BMI. The current study focuses...

... analysis of the questionnaires indicated little change in managers' and staffs' innovation behaviors, though employee exploration behaviors were strongly and positively correlated with their innovation behaviors. Qualitative leader-written evaluations reported increased understanding of innovation...

...Roshni Das Purpose There is a dearth of literature on what are the factors in terms of leaders’ and followers’ characteristics that impact innovation at the country level. The purpose of this paper is to build theoretical argument and provide empirical evidence of these factors using a cross...

...Paul Constantin Endrejat Purpose This study, first, examines whether a low culture person–organization (P-O) fit reduces job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Second, the author investigates how an organization's current innovation culture affects employees' attitudes...

... approach to collect data from 500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) established in China and India with 46.60% response rate. The SmartPLS 3.0 was employed for data analysis. Findings This study verified the mediating role of frugal innovation in emerging markets. Both market and technological...

...) performance. Moreover, we tested the mediating effect of corporate reputation (CR) and innovation between RL and TBL performance. Design/methodology/approach Perceptual data were collected from 227 senior-level Pakistani managers using a questionnaire survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used...

...Hui Lei; Lathong Leaungkhamma; Phong Ba Le Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effects of transformational leadership on individuals and organization’s innovation capability via the mediating role of employees' positive psychological capital (Psy-Cap) namely self-efficacy and optimism...

...Friederike Gerlach; Maike Hundeling; Kathrin Rosing Purpose The ambidextrous leadership model specifically describes opening and closing leader behaviors in the innovation process. This paper aims to emphasize the relevance of the ambidextrous leadership model with respect to leadership...

...Sylvie Vincent-Höper; Maie Stein Purpose In this study, the authors integrate the concept of leader support with a process model of innovation including the generation, promotion and implementation of innovative ideas to obtain an in-depth understanding of how leaders may support employees...

... through innovation is reviewed. Findings Analyses reveal how the SMH worked with the adaptive social networks of staff and stakeholders in concert around a shared purpose, identifying enablers and barriers to a healthy idea flow. Drawing on the leadership and governance framework empowers...

...Giang Hoang; Elisabeth Wilson-Evered; Leonie Lockstone-Binney Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of empowering leadership, directive leadership and initiating structure on innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and examine the mediating role of climate...

...Vanessa C. Villaluz; Ma. Regina M. Hechanova Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test a culture-building model, CREATE, highlighting the central role of leadership in shaping the predictors of innovation culture. The authors hypothesize that leadership directly predicts innovation culture...

...Emilio Domínguez Escrig; Francisco Fermín Mallén Broch; Ricardo Chiva Gómez; Rafael Lapiedra Alcamí Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of the relationship between altruistic leader behavior and radical innovation, using organizational learning as an explanatory...

...Hannes Zacher; Kathrin Rosing Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the first empirical test of the recently proposed ambidexterity theory of leadership for innovation (Rosing et al., 2011). This theory proposes that the interaction between two complementary leadership...

...Vincent Rousseau; Caroline Aubé; Sébastien Tremblay Purpose This study aims to examine the role of team coaching in regard to team innovation by considering motivational and behavioral intervening mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach Based on a multisource approach, data was gathered from...

...Mohammad Sadegh Sharifirad; Vahid Ataei Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of organizational culture (OC) on the building blocks of innovation culture (IC) in Iranian auto companies. Design/methodology In total, a sample of six large auto companies were examined...

...: Turning Upheaval Into Opportunity . San Francisco, CA : Berrett‐Koehler Publishers   2010 . 241 pp. , ISBN: ‐13: 978‐16050952‐19   US$ 34.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Emergence Innovation Change In Engaging Emergence, Peggy Holman shares...