The effect of knowledge-oriented leadership and human resource development on sustainable competitive advantage through organizational innovation's component factors: Evidence from Thailand ’s new S- curve industries

Abstract

Innovation and technology have been one of the challenging factors, bringing about uncertain business circumstances. Many business sectors have currently focused on competitiveness by improving a production process and other related operations. This research aims to study the roles of knowledge-oriented leadership and human resource development on a sustainable competitive advantage of an organization using data from employees in the high technology and innovation organizations of Thailand. These sample organizations are called the New S-Curve industries under the definition of the “Thailand 4.0 Model”. The Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze the effects. The results showed that knowledge-oriented leadership directly affected the sustainable competitive advantage, where human resource development did not have a significant direct effect on the sustainable competitive advantage. Moreover, both knowledge-oriented leadership and human resource development indirectly affected the sustainable competitive advantage through organizational innovation's component factors.