Fostering absorptive capacity and facilitating innovation in hospitality organizations through empowering leadership |
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| Institution: | 1. Fox School of Business, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, 390d Speakman Hall, 1810 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA;2. School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, 331 Speakman Hall, 1810 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA;1. ESSEC Business School, 95021, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France;2. NYU School of Professional Studies, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, New York, NY, 10003, United States;1. College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China;2. School of Management, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China;3. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Department, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China;4. Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;5. School of Management, CISME, Zhijiang College, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China;1. Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management, University of Houston, 4450 University Dr. #227, Houston, TX, 77204, United States;2. Department of Hotel Management, Cheju Halla University, 28 Halladae-gil, Heungeop-myeon, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea;3. Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 Northeast 151 Street, North Miami, LF, 33181, United States |
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| Abstract: | Empowering leadership facilitates a high-quality exchange of knowledge among employees. Although existing research highlights important contributions of empowering leadership at an employee level, there is little understanding of organizational mechanisms that benefit from this type of direction. Specifically, this study examined the connection of empowering leadership to the abilities of hospitality organizations to acquire and apply knowledge, namely absorptive capacity. Also, the relationships between absorptive capacity and multidimensional organizational innovation have been scarcely investigated. To bridge the research gap, this study used a time-lagged data collection method and examined a proposed structural model using the R Lavaan package. The results revealed empowering leadership had a positive relationship with potential and realized absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity had a positive relationship with the product, process, and administrative innovation. Also, empowering leadership was indirectly associated with innovation through potential and realized absorptive capacity. Accordingly, contributions and implications of this study were discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Empowering leadership Absorptive capacity Product innovation Process innovation Administrative innovation Knowledge management |
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