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The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation
Social information processing theory suggests that the chief executive officer’s entrepreneurial orientation (CEO EO) is an organisational signal that influences the members’ innovativeness. Middle management teams (MMTs) are expected to be more innovative as they connect senior managers with frontl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35432089 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.775558 |
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author | Zhang, Xu Liu, Yueyue Geng, Xiulin Wei, Danxia |
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description | Social information processing theory suggests that the chief executive officer’s entrepreneurial orientation (CEO EO) is an organisational signal that influences the members’ innovativeness. Middle management teams (MMTs) are expected to be more innovative as they connect senior managers with frontline managers in the dynamic competitive environment of the digital economy. How CEOs guide MMT innovations through EO becomes critical in the process of capturing opportunities and creating value. However, previous research has failed to adequately identify distinct CEO EO manifestations with organisational contexts configurations that influence MMTs innovation. Thus, based on differences in organisational contexts and MMTs’ cognition, this study thoroughly investigates how the vertical manifestation of CEO EO impacts the innovativeness of MMTs. We used fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of 117 organisations to determine which configurations of CEO EO vertical penetration within an organisation can stimulate MMT innovativeness. The study discovered four first-level configurations that support stimulating MMT innovativeness respectively when the CEO EO is fully or partially manifested, and without the CEO EO. Moreover, we found the internal reasons for MMTs’ information interpretation heterogeneity, which is critical for realising the coordination and unity of entrepreneurial cognition and behaviours. Finally, these findings’ theoretical and practical implications are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-90093342022-04-15 The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation Zhang, Xu Liu, Yueyue Geng, Xiulin Wei, Danxia Front Psychol Psychology Social information processing theory suggests that the chief executive officer’s entrepreneurial orientation (CEO EO) is an organisational signal that influences the members’ innovativeness. Middle management teams (MMTs) are expected to be more innovative as they connect senior managers with frontline managers in the dynamic competitive environment of the digital economy. How CEOs guide MMT innovations through EO becomes critical in the process of capturing opportunities and creating value. However, previous research has failed to adequately identify distinct CEO EO manifestations with organisational contexts configurations that influence MMTs innovation. Thus, based on differences in organisational contexts and MMTs’ cognition, this study thoroughly investigates how the vertical manifestation of CEO EO impacts the innovativeness of MMTs. We used fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of 117 organisations to determine which configurations of CEO EO vertical penetration within an organisation can stimulate MMT innovativeness. The study discovered four first-level configurations that support stimulating MMT innovativeness respectively when the CEO EO is fully or partially manifested, and without the CEO EO. Moreover, we found the internal reasons for MMTs’ information interpretation heterogeneity, which is critical for realising the coordination and unity of entrepreneurial cognition and behaviours. Finally, these findings’ theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9009334/ /pubmed/35432089 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.775558 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Liu, Geng and Wei. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Zhang, Xu Liu, Yueyue Geng, Xiulin Wei, Danxia The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title | The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title_full | The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title_fullStr | The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title_full_unstemmed | The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title_short | The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation |
title_sort | digital entrepreneurship era: how to motivate innovativeness in middle management teams? the vertical organisational pervasiveness of chief executive officer entrepreneurial orientation |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35432089 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.775558 |
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