Exploring the Effects of Evolutionary and Revolutionary Ceo Leadership on Innovation in High-technology Firms
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This study introduces two dimensions of strategic leadership, termed evolutionary and revolutionary specifically developed for top executives of high technology firms. Evolutionary leadership reflects a CEO’s ability to respond to changing competitive conditions and explore new paths of growth as well as exploit existing ones by redefining and extending the boundaries of the firm to new product and market domains. Our conceptualization of revolutionary leadership reflects a CEO’s emphasis on developing social and human capital and extending the boundaries of the firm to new knowledge domains. We develop hypotheses relating strategic leadership with innovation quantity, innovation resonance and novelty as well as firm performance. The hypotheses are tested using a sample of 77 high technology firms.
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