The Relationship between Entrepreneur Psychological Capital and Employee’s Innovative Behavior: The Strategic Role of Transformational Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

Abstract:

This research is to explore the relationships among entrepreneur psychological capital; innovative behavior; transformational leadership and knowledge sharing. Chinese enterprises participated in this investigation. We found that entrepreneur psychological capital influenced transformational leadership, while transformational leadership influenced employee’s innovative behavior positively. Besides, entrepreneur psychological capital influenced employee’s knowledge sharing positively while knowledge sharing influenced employee’s innovative behavior positively, but the direct influence between entrepreneur psychological capital and employee’s innovative behavior wasn’t exist. As anticipated, the intervening effect of transformational leadership and knowledge sharing between entrepreneur psychological capital and employee’s innovative behavior was significant. Implications, limitations and future research directions for the study are discussed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 282-283)
• Pages: 691-696
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.282-283.691
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Yu Zhu, Yan Fei Wang
• Keywords: Entrepreneur Psychological Capital, Innovative Behavior, Knowledge Sharing, Transformational Leadership

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