The role of transformational leadership and knowledge management processes on predicting product and process innovation: An empirical study developed in Kingdom of Bahrain

Transformational Leadership Facilitates Innovation Capability: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Trust

“…Many prior researches pointed out that, transformational leadership has important effects on firm innovation (Tushman & Nadler, 1986;Birasnav et al, 2013). Transformational leadership facilitates innovation by paying great attention on building innovative teams and transmitting stronger motivation to innovate (Tushman & Nadler, 1986;Senge et al, 1994).…”

“…Among different leadership style, transformational leadership emerges as one of the most effective one. The scholars particularly pay attention to the important role of transformational leadership style because these leaders have significant and positive influences on many key outcomes of firms such as: innovation and marketing differentiation (Menguc et al, 2007); organizational performance (Garcí a- Morales et al, 2008); product and process innovation (Birasnav et al, 2013); managerial performance (Nguyen et al, 2016); and organizational justice and trust (Le & Lei, 2017). As a result, exploring the mechanism that transformational leadership influences innovation capability is very necessary.…”

“…Recently, several studies have shown that interpersonal trust positively supports activities of sharing knowledge among individuals (Le & Lei, 2017;Le & Lei, 2018b;Le & Lei, 2018c) which is a decisive factors of organization innovation (Lin, 2007;Liao et al, 2007;Birasnav et al, 2013). However, literature on the direct relationship between interpersonal trust and innovation capability as well as the relationship between transformational leadership style, interpersonal trust, and innovation is still lacking.…”

How does altruistic leader behavior foster radical innovation? The mediating effect of organizational learning capability

“…Moreover, previous studies show that new leadership styles-such as those referred to above in which altruism is a main feature-influence the organizational ability to innovate. There are many studies relating transformational leadership to innovation (Aragón-Correa et al, 2007;Birasnav et al, 2013;Gumusluoglu & Ilsev, 2009). For example, Aragón-Correa et al (2007) observe the simultaneous influence of transformational leadership and organizational learning on innovation.…”

“…Rosing et al (2011) argue that this is because the influence of factors other than leadership has to be considered in fostering innovation. In this regard, many studies have analyzed how certain variables and constructs mediate the leadership-innovation relationship (e.g., Birasnav et al, 2013). Leadership is not a process that can be explained in isolation; it has to be considered within an organizational context (Porter & McLaughlin, 2006).…”