Влияние трансформационного лидерства на корпоративное предпринимательство при поглощающей способности в роли медиатора

The definition of leadership has continuously evolved over the past due evolving nature of business environment. But the leadership brings a competitive advantage, is no more a secret. Recently, a well-structured concept of transformational leadership has gain popularity among business due to its dynamic characteristics. Even most of the businesses has changed their focus from simply “production” to “innovation” due to competitiveness in the global market. Innovation doesn’t come in an easy way, it takes acquisition and assimilation of external and internal information by personnel under the corporate entrepreneurship environment and interestingly, to develop an entrepreneurship environment which aims to build innovation needs transformational leader to bring those changes in the organization. This study aims to define the links of transformational leadership with corporate entrepreneurship & absorptive capacity. The previous studies have tried to understand the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and performance, while considering the moderating effect of transformational leadership (Seungil, L., & Ahn, K.-Y.,2016), and they have showcased the enhancement of entrepreneurial behaviour due to the presence of transformational leadership, especially in the case of SME’s where leadership plays a significant role (Hamburg et al.2013).
As per the SME Chamber of India data, the small and medium enterprise have seen exponential growth in India after 2014 with over 48 million micro, small and medium enterprise. The SMEs in India both, registered and unregistered contributes in generating employment for 106 million people in India, which is more than 30% contribution to the workforce employment. There is also significant rise in entrepreneurship spirit among Indian after the 2014 elections as the Government of India came with initiatives such as “Make in India” and “Skill India” and this also led to emphasis on corporate entrepreneurship and focus on transformation leadership at a large scale, since, these government initiatives has also directed to focus on bringing innovation and enlightening entrepreneurship spirit at workplace. It has been quite evident that SME’s plays a significant role in India based on GDP contribution and even in employment generation.
This study considers SME’s of India due to its significant impact on the Indian economy, and, where only top five SMEs sectors are considered based on GDP contribution for study such as Information and technology, agriculture & allied, FMCG sector, mining & quarrying and textile sector. The respondents of the research, survey tool, are considered those who are major decision makers in the defined top five sectors such top level managers, CEO and Founder. It is due to the majority of SMEs in India has narrow hierarchy system, where, SMEs are operated majorly by family firms and usually, owners or CEOs are considered to be decision maker
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(Sharma Nomita, 2016) Furthermore, the study also aims to test whether transformational leadership can influence corporate entrepreneurship and also absorptive capacity, respectively.
There is a previous research evidence that showcase the corporate entrepreneurship is directly influenced by leaders and the level of external and internal knowledge that company gains during the process of building innovation capabilities to survive (Zahra, Shaker A., et al 2009). So, to validate or confirm, the study attempts to understand whether, absorptive capacity can mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and corporate entrepreneurship in context of SMEs of India.
The definition of corporate entrepreneurship has been defined and re-defined by many researchers in the past. Recently, the corporate entrepreneurship is redefied by many organisations and they refer it now as “Intrapreneurs.”
Zahra & George (2002) are the prime researchers who has suggested in their previous study that firms with greater level of absorptive capacity, i.e. Internal and external knowledge, can attain novel understanding that assist them to identify the diverse opportunities for corporate entrepreneurship (Yildiz, H.E., Murtic, A., Zander, 2019) and this has led this study to also find the relationship between transformational leadership and absorptive capacity under the mediation role of corporate entrepreneurship, especially under the context SMEs of developing nation, i.e. India. In this study, the corporate entrepreneurship is measured using CEAI tool, which evaluates the leaders (founder, CEO, Top level Managers) perception towards on five major dimensions (Management support, work discretion, rewards/ reinforcement, time availability and organization boundaries) for creating internal entrepreneurial environment.
Overall, the study aims to define link between transformational leadership, corporate entrepreneurship and absorptive capacity under dynamic nature of SME’s in India. The research has used the pre-developed and pre-tested measuring tools for transformational leadership, corporate entrepreneurship and absorptive capacity. The study has utilized the
literature and attempted to find the relationship between transformational leadership with absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship, respectively, while also extended the search to find the mediation role of corporate entrepreneurship and absorptive capacity with transformational leadership, respectively. This paper is organized in such a manner, where Chapter 1 broadly includes building of theoretical understanding and Chapter 2 broadly deals with research process and analysis part and eventually, making conclusion of the study.