Linking visionary leadership to creativity at multiple levels: The role of goal-related processes

Wenjing Cai, Xueling Fan and Qiqi Wang

Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 167, issue C

Abstract: Conceptualizing visionary leadership as a multilevel phenomenon that is manifested as dual-level (i.e., team and individual level) visionary leadership, we explore how it influences multilevel creativity through multilevel goal-related processes. Using two-wave data collected from 272 employees and 75 corresponding supervisors, we find that visionary leadership affects creativity through multilevel pathways. Specifically, team-level visionary leadership influences team creativity via team goal commitment, while individual-level visionary leadership influences employee creativity by fostering leader-follower goal congruence. The results also support two cross-level effects, i.e., team-level visionary leadership strengthens the relationship between individual-level visionary leadership and leader-follower congruence, and team goal commitment amplifies the effects of leader-follower goal congruence on employee creativity. This study thus sets the stage for further theoretical research on dual-level visionary leadership and how it functions at multiple levels to increase creativity.

Keywords: Visionary leadership; Multilevel creativity; Team goal commitment; Leader-follower goal congruence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114182

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