From Knowledge-Oriented Leadership to Information Technology Project Success: Modelling the Mediating Role of Team Empowerment

Abstract

By applying the concept from the Resource Based View (RBV) and Social Identity Theory (SIT), this endeavor aims to determine the influence of Knowledge-Oriented Leadership (KOL) on Project Success (PS). This study further ascertains the mediating role of team empowerment in the relationship between KOL and PS. The data were gathered from 207 project team professionals working in the Information Technology (IT) sector of Pakistan. This endeavor utilized Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling to substantiate the direct and mediating effects. The result indicated that KOL significantly influences project success. Moreover, the result further validated that team empowerment mediates the relationship between KOL and PS. There is a deficiency of an empirical investigation on the relationship between KOL and PS in the context of the evolving republic. This study makes a substantial contribution to the field of IT project management by demonstrating that KOL impacts PS while team empowerment mediates this relation. This is one of the primitive endeavors that explores the inter-relationship amongst KOL, PS, and team outcome.