Bossink, B A G (2004) Effectiveness of innovation leadership styles: A manager's influence on ecological innovation in construction projects. Construction Innovation, 4(4), pp. 211-228. ISSN 1471-4175
Abstract
This article presents four basic innovation leadership styles: charismatic, instrumental, strategic and interactive innovation leadership. The leadership styles and their characteristsics relate to process and product innovations in construction projects. A theoretical framework – which synthesizes these relations – enables explorative research into the effects of leadership on organizational innovativeness. Four case studies, observing the same manager in four comparable projects, explore the effects of each leadership style on a construction project's innovativeness in ecological terms. On an analytical level the case study explorations indicate that a manager's consistent performance of a leadership style stimulates the project's ecological innovativeness when the manager also injects the project with ecological information, knowledge and competence. It also indicates that a manager's consistent performance of a leadership style, without an injection of information, knowledge and competence in the project, does not stimulate the project's ecological innovativeness.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction; innovation; leadership; management; projects |
| Index terms: | construction project, manager, leadership style, case study, effectiveness, exploration, product innovation, competence, injection |
| Subjects: | personnel development, practitioner, manufacturing engineering, data collection methods, leadership, environmental resource management, production management, performance management, innovation studies |
| Topics: | Human Resources, Organizational Design, Engineering Principles, Sustainability, Project Management, Roles and Professions, Quality Management, Research Practice, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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