DOI: 10.5176/978-981-08-8408-6_BizStrategy2011_22
Authors: Mona Hassani Taleghani and Vahab Vahdat Zad
Abstract:
Innovation is created in organizations through implementation of innovative and new ideas resulted from individual or organizational learning. Organizational innocation thus involves exploratory as well as exploitative innovation. Prior theoretical studies show that explorative and exploitative innovations are related to the quality of stratefic leadership in terms of transformational and transactional resectively. This research considers how transformational and transactional leadership behaviors affect two kinds of aforementioned innovations. In this study, data was collected via quesionnaires from some Iranian innovative organizations. The data were analyzed and a model was developed.
Keywords: exploitative innovation; explorative innovation; transformational leadership; transactional leadershipl organizational learning
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