A Research on the Relationship between Leadership Orientations and the Innovativeness of Owner-Managers in Turkish Businesses | Zendy

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A Research on the Relationship between Leadership Orientations and the Innovativeness of Owner-Managers in Turkish Businesses

Author(s) -

Evren Ayrancı

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of management and strategy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1923-3973

pISSN - 1923-3965

DOI - 10.5430/jms.v2n1p48

Subject(s) - turkish , affect (linguistics) , leadership style , perception , business , public relations , transactional leadership , marketing , shared leadership , psychology , political science , philosophy , linguistics , communication , neuroscience

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 – namely, evaluating how perceived leadership and leadership orientations of owner-managers affect their own innovativeness – 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.

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