Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2167731
Modelling the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation in academic department: the mediating role of faculty members’ speaking up
Seddigheh Khorshid
Amir Mehdiabadi
Cristi Spulbar
Ramona Birau
Adrian T. Mitroi
Abstract
The creation of an entrepreneurship university involves the promotion
and institutionalisation of the orientation towards entrepreneurship
of all parts of the university, especially the scientific
departments, which is affected by several factors. Therefore, our
research investigates the effect of transformational leadership
style of academic departments’ heads on entrepreneurial orientation
of these departments mediated by speaking up behaviour of
faculty members. Data were collected from 217 faculty members
of 50 academic departments in universities of Qom city and provided
support for the model. The findings demonstrated a positive
and significant relationship between transformational
leadership and speaking up, between speaking up and entrepreneurial
orientation, and between transformational leadership and
entrepreneurial orientation. Furthermore, speaking up mediates
the relation between transformation leadership style and entrepreneurial
orientation. These findings highlight the catalyst role of
speaking up, leveraging transformational leadership as antecedents
of entrepreneurial orientation in academic departments.
These findings are valuable inputs for managers in university, and
policy makers in a higher education sector. Eventually, the theoretical
and practical inferences of this research are discussed.
Keywords
Transformational leadership; entrepreneurial orientation; voice behaviour; speaking up; higher education
Hrčak ID:
306821
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2023.
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