The impact of ceos’ transformational leadership on sustainable organizational innovation in smes: A three-wave mediating role of organizational learning and psychological empowerment

Saira Begum; Enjun Xia; Khalid Mehmood; Yaser Iftikhar; Yan Li

doi:10.3390/su12208620

The impact of ceos’ transformational leadership on sustainable organizational innovation in smes: A three-wave mediating role of organizational learning and psychological empowerment

Saira Begum, Enjun Xia, Khalid Mehmood^*, Yaser Iftikhar, Yan Li^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Management

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	8620
Pages (from-to)	1-16
Number of pages	16
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	12
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208620
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2020

Keywords

Organizational learning
Psychological empowerment
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Sustainable organizational innovation
Transformational leadership

UN SDGs

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The impact of ceos’ transformational leadership on sustainable organizational innovation in smes: A three-wave mediating role of organizational learning and psychological empowerment. / Begum, Saira; Xia, Enjun; Mehmood, Khalid et al.
In: Sustainability (Switzerland), Vol. 12, No. 20, 8620, 02.10.2020, p. 1-16.

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