TY - JOUR
T1 - The importance of innovation leadership in cultivating strategic fit and enhancing firm performance
AU - Carmeli, Abraham
AU - Gelbard, Roy
AU - Gefen, David
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - This study examines the importance of innovation leadership in cultivating the strategic fit of an organization with its environment, and enhancing various economic, relationship, and product performance outcomes. It thus explores how innovation leadership enables a firm to change and adapt to its external environment and by implication enhance its performance. The results of data collected from 117 firms show that innovation leadership, both directly and through increased strategic fit, significantly enhances firm performance. Implications for research on strategic and innovation leadership and adaptive organizational systems are discussed.
AB - This study examines the importance of innovation leadership in cultivating the strategic fit of an organization with its environment, and enhancing various economic, relationship, and product performance outcomes. It thus explores how innovation leadership enables a firm to change and adapt to its external environment and by implication enhance its performance. The results of data collected from 117 firms show that innovation leadership, both directly and through increased strategic fit, significantly enhances firm performance. Implications for research on strategic and innovation leadership and adaptive organizational systems are discussed.
KW - Adaptability
KW - Change
KW - Firm performance
KW - Innovation leadership
KW - Strategic fit
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77953683445&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.03.001
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AN - SCOPUS:77953683445
SN - 1048-9843
VL - 21
SP - 339
EP - 349
JO - Leadership Quarterly
JF - Leadership Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -