Effect of Transformational Leadership on Open Innovation Through Innovation Culture
The Taylor & Francis Online website posted a study which designed a framework to describe how leadership interplays with the innovation culture and the firm’s absorptive capacity to enhance open innovation. The results show that transformational leadership positively impacts the outbound open innovation and enhances a firm’s innovation culture, which encourages the inbound open innovation. Furthermore, results indicated a moderating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between innovation culture and inbound open innovation. The results show that transformational leadership positively impacts the outbound open innovation and enhances a firm’s innovation culture, which encourages the inbound open innovation. Furthermore, results indicated a moderating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between innovation culture and inbound open innovation.
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