The Measurement Items of Leadership Factors toward Successful Technopreneur in UAE

Abstract

Leadership factors motivate the organization to move towards its success through influencing and directing in a cohesive way for better performance. It focuses on leading, influencing, commanding, and guiding employees in an organization. The Global Competitiveness Report year, 2017–2018 for the World Economic Forum shows that UAE rated 23rd place out of 80 countries in the world for entrepreneurship ranking. Therefore, entrepreneurs need to become successful technopreneurs that emphasize innovation and technology perspectives. The study focus on the relationship between Leadership Factors (LF) in Devolved Decision-Making (DM), Collaborative Achievement (CA), Agility Factor (AF), Purpose and direction (PD), and Authenticity Factor (AT), Digital Enablers (DE) in Digital Access (DA), Digital Commerce (DC), Digital Communication (DCM), and Digital Literacy (DL), Entrepreneurial Skills (ES) in Interpersonal Skills (IS), Critical Thinking Skills (CT), and Practical Skills (PS) and Successful Technopreneur (ST) in Knowledge-Economy (KE), Value Chain (VC), and High-Technology (HT). Moreover, the results obtained through PLS-SEM to test the hypotheses of the finding. The estimations of path coefficients, p-values, and t-values at an important level of 0.05 were assessed to test the hypotheses. Based on these values, all the hypotheses of the present study were accepted.