Abstract
Drawing on the literature of chief executive officer (CEO) leadership behaviors and corporate entrepreneurship (CE), this study examines how CEO leadership behaviors (task-focused and relationship-focused) facilitate CE through human resource management (HRM) practices and how the mediating effect is affected by organizational life cycle. Using data from 192 Chinese firms, the study finds that both CEO task-focused leadership and relationship-focused leadership positively lead to CE; CEO task-focused leadership is positively related to HRM expectation-enhancing practices and CEO relationship-focused leadership is positively related to HRM inducement and investment practices. In addition, HRM expectation-enhancing practices mediated the positive relationship between CEO task-focused leadership and CE, and the indirect effect was stronger when the organization was at the growth stage. These findings give rise to theoretical and practical implications, which are discussed.
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