Abstract
This study explores the relationship among leadership styles (transformation and transaction types), organization learning, and enterprise innovation performance in China SMEs. The main purpose of this study is to find out the innovation performance of Chines SMEs, according to leadership styles. Thus, we collected data from 417 Chinese consumers through on/off line. The major empirical findings are as follows. First, the transformation leadership and transactional leadership style have a positive impact on organizational learning. Second, the research results of this study verify the positive impact of leadership style on innovation performance. Third, organizational learning has a forward impact on innovation performance. We conclude that organizational learning has a partial intermediary role on the relationship between leadership styles and enterprise innovation performance. This study enriches and expands research in leadership style and innovative performance, thus rationalizing improvements in corporate innovation performance. This study also contributes to the provision of theoretical support for leadership decisions of enterprises and other types of of organization.
Highlights
Small- and medium-sized enterprises are an important part of China’s economy
According to the research of the above scholars, this paper focuses on the relationship of organizational learning, leadership style, and innovation performance, and discusses the mediating role of organizational culture between leadership style and innovation performance
This paper studies the relationship between transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, organizational learning, and innovation performance of small- and medium-sized Chinese enterprises, which is helpful to understand the mechanism of them, and provide suggestions and countermeasures to improve the innovation performance of Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises
Summary
Small- and medium-sized enterprises are an important part of China’s economy. With the economic development and the further implementation of enterprise reform, a large number of small- and medium-sized enterprises have emerged, accounting for half of the country, and have made great contributions to the development of the national economy. Sustainability 2022, 14, 3249 investigate the relationship between leadership style and innovation performance and explore the development path for small- and medium-sized enterprises in China. Liu et al [30] took small- and mediumsized enterprises as research objects and found that organizational learning plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between transactional leadership style and innovation performance. Wang and Chen [10] proposed that transactional leadership style and transformational leadership style can affect enterprise innovation performance through organizational learning. This paper studies the relationship between transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, organizational learning, and innovation performance of small- and medium-sized Chinese enterprises, which is helpful to understand the mechanism of them, and provide suggestions and countermeasures to improve the innovation performance of Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises. An empirical analysis method is adopted to explore the impact of different leadership styles on organizational learning and innovation performance of SMEs, which makes up for the lack of empirical research in this area
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