Leadership process in an innovation team at Nokia: An analysis from the Complex Leadership Theory (CLT)

Leadership for Innovation in Healthcare: An Exploration

Although leadership has been studied extensively, most research has focused on the political and military spheres. More recent work has also examined the role of leadership in sectors such as manufacturing and technology, both areas where it is essential to encourage and nurture innovation. Yet, in the health sector, where innovation is now high on the policy agenda in many countries, there is ...

Transformational leadership and team innovation: integrating team climate principles.

Fostering team innovation is increasingly an important leadership function. However, the empirical evidence for the role of transformational leadership in engendering team innovation is scarce and mixed. To address this issue, the authors link transformational leadership theory to principles of M. A. West's (1990) team climate theory and propose an integrated model for the relationship between ...

An Economic Theory of Leadership

This paper studies the role of leadership style in providing incentives to subordinates. A leadership style is characterized by its degree of decentralization of tasks and its degree of empathy towards subordinates interests. I analyze the optimal leadership style in an incomplete contract framework in which the agent as well as the principal jointly have to solve decision problems and implemen...

Team leadership

Despite the ubiquity of leadership influences on organizational team performance and the large literatures on leadership and team/group dynamics, we know surprisingly little about how leaders create and handle effective teams. In this article, we focus on leader–team dynamics through the lens of ‘‘functional leadership.’’ This approach essentially asserts that the leader’s main job is to do, or...

Exploring the Adaptive Function in Complexity Leadership Theory: An Examination of Shared Leadership and Collective Creativity in Innovation Networks