Assessing the influence of leadership style, organizational learning and organizational innovation

Purpose Based on literature development, this study proposes a conceptual framework and the theoretical model in order to examine the influence of leadership, organizational learning (OL), and organizational innovation (OI) in Taiwan’s financial and information technology industries. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling (SEM) is employed to evaluate the degree of influence each variable has on the others and whether their relationships differ in different industry. This study investigates a selection of firms from the top 100 financial and the top 1000 high technology enterprises in Taiwan in 2012 as the population. A total of 377 valid responses were collected from 2012 to 2013. Findings The research results indicate that organizational learning acts as a full mediator between leadership and organizational innovation. Furthermore, industry type has moderating effect in the proposed research model. Originality/value Thus, considering appropriate leadership styles through learning to in...