Bracht, EM, Monzani, L, Boer, D et al. (35 more authors) (2023) Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations. Applied Psychology: an international review, 72 (1). pp. 348-388. ISSN 0269-994X
Abstract
Innovation is considered essential for today's organizations to survive and thrive. Researchers have also stressed the importance of leadership as a driver of followers' innovative work behavior (FIB). Yet, despite a large amount of research, three areas remain understudied: (a) The relative importance of different forms of leadership for FIB; (b) the mechanisms through which leadership impacts FIB; and (c) the degree to which relationships between leadership and FIB are generalizable across cultures. To address these lacunae, we propose an integrated model connecting four types of positive leadership behaviors, two types of identification (as mediating variables), and FIB. We tested our model in a global data set comprising responses of N = 7,225 participants from 23 countries, grouped into nine cultural clusters. Our results indicate that perceived LMX quality was the strongest relative predictor of FIB. Furthermore, the relationships between both perceived LMX quality and identity leadership with FIB were mediated by social identification. The indirect effect of LMX on FIB via social identification was stable across clusters, whereas the indirect effects of the other forms of leadership on FIB via social identification were stronger in countries high versus low on collectivism. Power distance did not influence the relations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Applied Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association of Applied Psychology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
Keywords: | cross-cultural leadership; innovative behavior; multilevel modeling; positive leadership; social identification |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2022 11:19 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2023 22:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/apps.12381 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183237 |