How and Why Top Executives Influence Innovation: A Review of Mechanisms and a Research Agenda

IF 9.3 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI:10.1177/01492063241284962

David H. Zhu, Zeyu Zhao, Matthew Semadeni

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Abstract

Scholars have shown increasing interest in the relationship between top executives and firm innovation. However, no systematic effort has been made to integrate or synthesize the theoretical mechanisms in this literature. Without such an integrative framework, this field remains fragmented, offering limited guidance for future research. In this study, we integrate and synthesize findings from over 100 articles on the effects of top executives on innovation. Our review identifies four major categories of theoretical mechanisms (Motivations, Cognitions, Leadership Behaviors, and Influences), eleven sub-categories of mechanisms, and three prominent causal chains in the literature. Our review also examines how these mechanisms align with those in the broader innovation literature, highlighting numerous opportunities for future research. These include deeper integration within and across four categories of mechanisms in strategic leadership literature, drawing insights from strategic leadership research to better inform future research on organizational motivations for innovation, examining top executives’ economic motivations for innovation, and elucidating how strategic leaders shape absorptive and economic capacities to innovate.

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高层管理人员如何以及为何影响创新？机制回顾与研究议程

学者们对高层管理人员与企业创新之间的关系越来越感兴趣。然而，目前还没有系统性的工作来整合或综合这些文献中的理论机制。没有这样一个整合框架，这一领域仍然是支离破碎的，对未来研究的指导作用有限。在本研究中，我们对 100 多篇关于高层管理人员对创新的影响的文章进行了整合和归纳。我们的综述确定了四大类理论机制（动机、认知、领导行为和影响）、十一个机制子类以及文献中三个突出的因果链。我们的综述还研究了这些机制与更广泛的创新文献中的机制之间的关系，并强调了未来研究的众多机遇。这些机遇包括：在战略领导力文献的四个机制类别内部和之间进行更深入的整合；从战略领导力研究中汲取见解，为未来有关组织创新动机的研究提供更好的信息；研究高层管理人员的创新经济动机；阐明战略领导者如何塑造创新的吸收能力和经济能力。

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5.20%

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