THE EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION, ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY

Аннотация

Leadership is an important factor affecting organizational innovation. Many studies show that transformational leadership has positive and significant influence on organizational performance. Based on a literature review and previous work, this study aims to investigate study analyzes the influences of transformational leadership on organizational performance through the dynamic capabilities of organizational learning and innovation, the influence of transformational leadership on organizational innovation and to examine whether organizational learning is a moderate between transformation leadership and organizational performance and includes the mediating role of absorptive capacity. Today’s information and knowledge society requires new leaders who can confront a reality based on knowledge and foster innovation to achieve improvements in organizational performance. Our study seeks to fill this research gap by analyzing theoretically and empirically how the leader’s perceptions of different intermediate strategic variables related to (organization performance, organizational innovation absorptive capacity, organizational learning) and innovation influence the relation between transformational leadership and organizational performance.