Cultivating innovative behaviors: How entrepreneurial leaders foster employees’ antifragility within autonomous work settings

IF 15.6 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI:10.1016/j.jik.2025.100701

Mashael Malibari , Saleh Bajaba , Abdulah Bajaba , Abdulrahman Basahal

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Abstract

Entrepreneurial leadership has emerged as a key driver of innovation, yet the underlying mechanisms remain less understood. The current study, grounded in social cognitive theory and social learning theory, examines the role of entrepreneurial leadership in fostering innovative behavior among employees in autonomous work settings, with a particular focus on employee antifragility. It theorizes that employee antifragility mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employees' innovative behavior and that the level of job autonomy moderates this association. To examine these dynamics, a two-wave survey was conducted with 358 full-time employees from various U.S. industries, employing Smart PLS-SEM, importance-performance map analysis, and necessary condition analysis for data analysis. The findings demonstrate a significant impact of entrepreneurial leadership on employees' innovative behavior, with employee antifragility acting as a key mediator. Furthermore, job autonomy was found to enhance the influence of entrepreneurial leadership on employee antifragility. The research offers practical insights for organizations aiming to boost innovation, suggesting that developing entrepreneurial leadership, nurturing employee antifragility, and supporting job autonomy are essential. The holistic perspective on the interplay of entrepreneurial leadership, employee antifragility, and job autonomy provides a new understanding of innovation in organizational settings.

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Journal of Innovation & Knowledge Multiple-

CiteScore

16.10

自引率

12.70%

发文量

118

审稿时长

37 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Innovation and Knowledge (JIK) explores how innovation drives knowledge creation and vice versa, emphasizing that not all innovation leads to knowledge, but enduring innovation across diverse fields fosters theory and knowledge. JIK invites papers on innovations enhancing or generating knowledge, covering innovation processes, structures, outcomes, and behaviors at various levels. Articles in JIK examine knowledge-related changes promoting innovation for societal best practices. JIK serves as a platform for high-quality studies undergoing double-blind peer review, ensuring global dissemination to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who recognize innovation and knowledge as economic drivers. It publishes theoretical articles, empirical studies, case studies, reviews, and other content, addressing current trends and emerging topics in innovation and knowledge. The journal welcomes suggestions for special issues and encourages articles to showcase contextual differences and lessons for a broad audience. In essence, JIK is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing theoretical and practical innovations and knowledge across multiple fields, including Economics, Business and Management, Engineering, Science, and Education.