Ambidextrous leadership and innovation ambidexterity in a business function: the role of managers’ psychological capital and proactive personality

IF 6.6 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Knowledge Management Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI:10.1108/jkm-09-2024-1109

Nguyen Tho, Nguyen Thi Mai Trang, Nguyen Ngoc Quynh Thu

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Abstract

Purpose

Recognizing the crucial role of leadership in innovation, this study aims to investigate the role of ambidextrous leadership (opening and closing leadership behaviors) in marketing departments’ innovation ambidexterity (exploratory and exploitative innovations), including the mediating and moderating roles of marketing managers’ psychological capital (PsyCap) and proactive personality, respectively.

Design/methodology/approach

A two-wave survey of 198 marketing managers from firms in Vietnam was conducted. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used in hypotheses testing (net effects), and necessary condition analysis was used to decipher the necessity level of the determinants of innovation ambidexterity.

Findings

Opening leadership behavior positively affects exploratory innovation while closing leadership behavior enhances exploitative innovation. The effect of opening leadership behavior on exploratory innovation is mediated and moderated by PsyCap and proactive personality, respectively; the opposite is found for the relationship between closing leadership behavior and exploitative innovation. Finally, PsyCap is a necessary condition for exploratory innovation, whereas PsyCap and closing leadership behavior are necessary conditions for exploitative innovation.

Practical implications

Firms should pay attention to the role of ambidexterity in leadership to enable marketing managers to direct their marketing departments to acquire new knowledge, skills and processes, and reinforce existing ones to foster innovation ambidexterity. They should also consider the necessary role of the factors that help achieve the desired level of target outcomes.

Originality/value

This study identifies two boundary conditions (PsyCap, a mediator; and proactive personality, a moderator) for the relationship between opening leadership behavior and exploratory innovation. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first to decipher the necessity level of the determinants of innovation ambidexterity.

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企业职能中的两面性：管理者心理资本与主动性人格的作用

目的认识到领导在创新中的重要作用，本研究旨在探讨双灵巧型领导（开放性和封闭性领导行为）在营销部门创新双灵巧性（探索性创新和剥削性创新）中的作用，包括营销经理心理资本（PsyCap）和主动性人格分别在创新双灵巧性中的中介作用和调节作用。设计/方法/方法对越南公司的198名营销经理进行了两波调查。采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型进行假设检验（净效应），并采用必要条件分析来揭示创新二元性决定因素的必要程度。发现开放性领导行为正向影响探索性创新，封闭性领导行为正向促进剥削性创新。开放性领导行为对探索性创新的影响分别受心理cap和主动性人格的中介和调节作用；封闭性领导行为与剥削性创新的关系则相反。最后，心理cap是探索性创新的必要条件，而心理cap和封闭性领导行为是剥削性创新的必要条件。实践启示企业应重视双元性在领导中的作用，使营销经理能够指导其营销部门获得新的知识、技能和流程，并加强现有的知识、技能和流程，以促进创新双元性。它们还应考虑有助于实现预期目标结果水平的因素所起的必要作用。原创性/价值本研究确定了两个边界条件(PsyCap，中介；而主动性人格对开放性领导行为与探索性创新之间的关系起调节作用。据作者所知，这项研究是第一个破译创新二元性决定因素的必要性水平的研究之一。

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Journal of Knowledge Management Multiple-

CiteScore

13.70

自引率

15.70%

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期刊介绍： Knowledge Management covers all the key issues in its field including: ■Developing an appropriate culture and communication strategy ■Integrating learning and knowledge infrastructure ■Knowledge management and the learning organization ■Information organization and retrieval technologies for improving the quality of knowledge ■Linking knowledge management to performance initiatives ■Retaining knowledge - human and intellectual capital ■Using information technology to develop knowledge management ■Knowledge management and innovation ■Measuring the value of knowledge already within an organization ■What lies beyond knowledge management?