CEO Relational Leadership and Product Innovation Performance: The Roles of TMT Behavior and Characteristics
CEO leadership is considered a critical antecedent of product innovation performance, but the relational aspect of leadership has been largely neglected in this area. Drawing on upper echelons theory and relational leadership literature, this study explores , , and CEO relational leadership influenc...
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Published in | Frontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 874105 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A
27.04.2022
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Summary: | CEO leadership is considered a critical antecedent of product innovation performance, but the relational aspect of leadership has been largely neglected in this area. Drawing on upper echelons theory and relational leadership literature, this study explores
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CEO relational leadership influences product innovation performance. Specifically, we analyze the underlying mechanism of TMT (top management team) voice behavior and two boundary conditions-TMT educational level and TMT age. Based on multi-source and multi-wave data on 105 Chinese firms, this study finds that CEO relational leadership plays an important role in promoting product innovation performance through the intervening mechanism of TMT voice behavior. Furthermore, the positive relationship between CEO relational leadership and TMT voice behavior is stronger in TMTs with higher educational level and lower age. This study contributes to the existing literature by empirically examining the under-investigated relationship between CEO relational leadership and product innovation performance, and by disentangling the underlying mechanism and boundary conditions. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Reviewed by: Andres Felipe Cortes, Sacred Heart University, United States; Caiyun Liu, Guangdong University of Finance, China |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 1664-1078 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.874105 |