Context is key : the joint roles of transformational and shared leadership and management innovation in predicting employee IT innovation adoption

Bunjak, Aldijana (author), Bruch, Heike (author), Černe, Matej (author)

This study investigates how transformational leadership, through shared leadership, predicts followers’ information technology (IT) innovation adoption at work. We further examine how management innovation acts as an organizational-level enabler, enhancing the impact of leadership on followers’ IT innovation adoption. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a multi-source, multi-level field study of 5884 employees and 92 of their leaders in small- and medium-sized German companies. Data were analyzed by applying multi-level moderated-mediation analysis. The study findings revealed that shared leadership mediated the relationship between perceived transformational leadership and followers’ IT innovation adoption at the individual level. Moreover, organizational-level management innovation moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and IT innovation adoption, mediated by shared leadership. Taken together, our findings indicate that transformational leadership has the power to motivate followers to lead themselves toward implementing digital change. Our study contributes to shaping a multi-level organizational context that promotes IT innovation adoption at work.

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, leadership, information technology, innovations, transformational leadership, shared leadership, followership, management innovation, IT innovation adoption
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 66, art. 102516
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136444
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 0268-4012
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102516
• COBISS.SI-ID: 106223363
• Publication date in RUL: 04.05.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of information management
• Shortened title: Int. j. inf. manage.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0268-4012
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8905221

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetje, vodenje, informacijska tehnologija, inovacije

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-2555
• Name: Oblikovanje organizacije v digitalni dobi

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0410
• Name: Digitalizacija kot gonilo trajnostnega razvoja posameznika, organizacij in družbe