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How agile leaders promote continuous innovation : An explorative framework

  • Achieving continuous innovation performance still poses a major challenge to established companies as it requires high flexibility and adaptability in usually efficiently structured organisations. One way to tackle this challenge lies in establishing effective behaviours to successfully establish and apply innovation leadership mechanisms in an organisation. The emerging agile leadership style could provide such effective behaviours, as it addresses the demand for flexibility and adaptability on the organisational level. Despite these clear parallels research on the link between agile leadership and innovation leadership, and their possible combined contribution to drive continuous innovation performance is still in its infancy. Accordingly, the present study examines the behaviours of agile leaders to promote continuous innovation in established companies. It applies a discovery-driven research process of agile leaders to derive and categorise their behaviours. The subsequent comparison of the identified agile leadership behaviours with innovation leadership mechanisms from existing literature leads to eight specific, combined agile leadership principles within the three categories empowerment, performance enhancement, and support for continuous innovation. Eventually, this basis allows the conceptualisation of a first exploratory framework with the identified behaviours as possible enablers, and innovation leadership mechanisms as possible mediators for the continuous innovation performance, subject to test. These findings enhance existing theory by clarifying a possible link between agile leadership and continuous innovation. That way, practitioners can profit from concrete principles for agile leaders to inspire and enable continuous innovation in individuals and teams.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author:Lysander Weiss, Lucas Vergin, Dominik K. KanbachORCiD
Chairs and Professorships:Chair of Strategic Entrepreneurship
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-396-120231012
Parent Title (English):Innovation leadership on practice: How leaders turn ideas into value in a changing world
ISBN:978-1-83753-397-8
ISBN:978-1-83753-396-1
Place of publication:Leeds
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Year of Completion:2023
First Page:223
Last Page:242
Tag:Agile leadership; Continuous innovation; Innovation leadership; Leadership principles; Leadership style
Content Focus:Academic Audience
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt