Leadership and workplace innovation: An investigation of asian SMEs

Nuttawuth Muenjohn; Adela McMurray

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57940-9_11

Leadership and workplace innovation: An investigation of asian SMEs

Nuttawuth Muenjohn, Adela McMurray

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Abstract

Few studies have explored the relationship between leadership and workplace innovation in non-Western contexts. The purpose of this study was to examine this relationship in the context of two Asian countries. To this end, structural equation modeling was implemented to analyze 696 usable questionnaires received from staff employed in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand and Vietnam. The results revealed that design leadership has a significant effect on the four dimensions of workplace innovation, thus confirming an interactionist theory perspective which is under-researched in Thai and Vietnamese SME contexts. This study therefore extends the design leadership and innovation literatures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia
Editors	Nuttawuth Muenjohn, Adela McMurray
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	201-212
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137579409
ISBN (Print)	9781137579386
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57940-9_11
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

design leadership
workplace innovation
SMEs
Structural equation modeling

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