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Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of entrepreneurial leadership on nurses’ innovation work behavior and its dimensions. Design and Methods This cross‐sectional study employed the 10‐item Innovation Work Behavior Questionnaire and the 8‐item Entrepreneurial Leadership Questionnaire to explore the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on the innovation work behavior of 273 nurses from public and private hospitals in Iran. Findings Entrepreneurial leadership had a significant positive impact on nurses’ innovation work behavior and most strongly improved idea exploration, followed by idea generation, idea implementation, and idea championing. Conclusions Entrepreneurial leadership was effective in enhancing nurses’ innovation work behavior. More attention needs to be focused on developing entrepreneurial leadership competencies and on developing nurse leaders. Clinical Relevance Healthcare policies and strategies are needed to facilitate the implementation of entrepreneurial leadership by providing healthcare leaders with the appropriate environment.

Specifying the mechanism through which perceived self-efficacy affects one's behavior has been one of the main concerns of researchers and educators particularly in entrepreneurship domain due to the critical role that entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays in motivating and enabling individuals to establish a new venture. This study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy, self-regulation and entrepreneurial intention using Bandura's structural path model for the constructs. The sample was composed of 722 public and private Malaysian university students. The results revealed that students' entrepreneurial selfefficacy has the most significant and positive impact on their intention to become an entrepreneur. More specifically, entrepreneurial self-efficacy highly affects students' entrepreneurial intention both directly and indirectly. Furthermore, self-regulation partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and students' entrepreneurial intention. Implications of these findings for entrepreneurship research and education are discussed

PurposeThe crucial importance of innovation leadership for high-technology small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) has been suggested in the literature. However, few studies empirically examined the impact of leadership style on innovation work behavior (IWB) of employees in the context of SMEs. Furthermore, the authors’ knowledge is limited about how leaders of high-technology SMEs influence the IWB of their employees. This study aims to explore the effect of entrepreneurial leadership on IWB of employees and introduces creativity self-efficacy and support for innovation as the mechanisms through which the leaders encourage their employees' IWB in information and computer technology (ICT) SMEs in Iran.Design/methodology/approachThe sample was selected from the high-technology ICT SMEs using the simple random sampling method. A sample of 175 CEOs and owner-managers of the businesses participated in this research. The authors used validated questionnaires to test the hypothesized relationships between entrepreneurial leadership, IWB, creativity self-efficacy and support for innovation.FindingsThe study findings show that entrepreneurial leadership has a significant and positive impact on IWB of employees in ICT SMEs. Furthermore, the findings reveal that creativity self-efficacy and support for innovation mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and IWB. The implications of the results and suggestions for developing IWB among the employees of high-technology SMEs are suggested.Originality/valueThe study makes important contributions to both entrepreneurial leadership and innovation behavior literature and theory development specifically in high-technology SMEs in the transitioning economy of Iran. The findings also contribute to the existing empirical studies on how entrepreneurial leadership affects IWB of employees by examining the mediating role of creativity self-efficacy and support for innovation and in the settings of ICT high-technology SMEs.