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Information technology self-leadership and innovation

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title Information technology self-leadership and innovation
 
Creator Eseryel, Yeliz; Department of Innovation Management & Strategy,
Faculty of Economics and Business,
University of Groningen,
Groningen, Netherlands
Bakker, Daan; Department of Innovation Management & Strategy,
Faculty of Economics and Business,
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Eseryel, Deniz; The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation,
College of Education,
North Carolina State University, USA
 
Description We define IT self-leadership as the initiatives of a team’s members to use IT to improve their team performance. This exploratory multiple case study explores how IT self-leadership manifests in teams and how it contributes to the innovativeness of teams. IT self- leadership construct is developed by adapting the self-leadership construct to the information technology context. The study is conducted at six different product- or process-innovative teams, where the context of those teams was distributed between small organizations and large multinationals. Results show that IT self-leadership influences innovative behavior by enhancing communication, feedback, brainstorming, networking, sharing knowledge, visualization and adaptive behavior. Moreover, product innovations appear to be mostly influenced by IT self-leadership through technology driven idea generation. Process innovation on the other hand, is driven by the business and to a lesser degree by IT self-leadership. This paper concludes with practical suggestions to improve IT self-leadership and thereby team innovativeness.
 
Publisher Institute of Leadership in Management
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-12-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/39
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/39/69
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Author & JLM
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