The secret to enhancing innovativeness in the digital industryc

Abstract

The effects of leadership styles on organisational innovativeness are still arguable due to inconsistencies. Many researchers have analysed the direct and indirect relationships with antecedent variables of organisational innovativeness. The influence of transformational leadership styles has been widely approved to have an effect to organisational innovativeness. However, organisations sometimes fail to achieve their organisational innovativeness due to their limited understanding of the relationships between leadership, and knowledge-based empowering interaction that will enhance organisational innovativeness. This study is constructed to fill a research gap between Digital Transformational Leadership Styles and Organisational Innovativeness with Knowledge-Based Empowering Interaction as mediator. It deploys 32 digital firms' owners and executives in Indonesia as samples. Data was gathered through online questionnaire of Likert's Scales, and analysed with Smart Partial Least Squares. The result shows that organisations should consider the Knowledge-Based Empowering Interaction to increase Organisational Innovativeness.