 A Research on the Relationship between Leadership Orientations and the Innovativeness of Owner-Managers in Turkish BusinessesEvren Ayranci Journal of Management and Strategy, 2011, vol. 2, issue 1, 48-59 Abstract: Relevant literature notes that leadership in business contexts inspires innovativeness. This study considers this insight as a starting point but moves beyond the existing literature by focusing only on leaders to understand how leadership inspires a leader¡¯s own innovativeness. The author chose the people who own and manage a business (owner-managers) and used the perceptions of workers in businesses to evaluate the existence of leadership as well as leadership orientations of owner-managers. The key objectives of this study ¨C namely, evaluating how perceived leadership and leadership orientations of owner-managers affect their own innovativeness ¨C reveal remarkable results. There are two leadership orientations, one focusing on the work and the other that focuses on people. There are many factors related to owner-manager innovativeness. The perceived leadership of owner-managers moderately affects their innovativeness in a positive direction. The factors related to people-oriented leadership can also affect their innovativeness positively at a moderate level. Keywords: Leadership; Innovativeness; Owner; Manager; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jfr:jms111:v:2:y:2011:i:1:p:48-59 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Management and Strategy is currently edited by Jenny Zhang More articles in Journal of Management and Strategy from Journal of Management and Strategy, Sciedu Press |
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