Impact of entrepreneurial leadership on product innovation performance: intervening effect of absorptive capacity, intra-firm networks, and design thinking

• Autor(a) principal: Rehman, Khaliq Ur
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Aslam, Farhan, Mata, Mário Nuno, Moleiro Martins, José, Abreu, António, Lourenço, António José dos Santos Morão, Mariam, Mariam
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/13835
• topic: Entrepreneurial leadership; Product innovation performance; Risk; Design thinking; Intra-firm networks; Absorptive capacity

The main objective of this research is to investigate the nexus between entrepreneurial leadership and product innovation performance. In addition, the mediating mechanism of absorptive capacity, intra-firm networks, and design thinking through which entrepreneurial leaders influence product innovation performanceis also studied. The researcher contacted three hundred (300) plus firms; 157 firms showed a willingness to participate, and 96 firms provided the data with a response rate of 61.15%. Out of those 96 firms, the data from 71 firms were used for the final analysis, yielding an effective response rate of 45.22%. Only middle and top-level employees from the marketing and research & development departments from Pakistani firms were selected as respondents because these two departments are directly related to product innovation performance. To test the hypothesis, the Smart PLS-SEM technique wasused. The empirical analysis revealed that entrepreneurial leadership impacted product innovation performance through the mediating mechanism of design thinking, intra-firm networks, and absorptive capacity. The current research contributes to entrepreneurial leadership theory by proposing and empirically testing how entrepreneurial leaders affect product innovation performance.