Investigating the Effect of Platform Leadership on Employee Innovative Behavior

Ying Li, Muhammad Shahid Khan

ABSTRACT:

With the rapid development of information and digital technology in China, the Platform economy has been born, more and more enterprises appear as platform-oriented leaders. Platform leadership is a new leadership model with the core characteristics of "empowerment", "growth", and equal sharing. At present, there are few literature on integrating platform thinking into leadership theory both domestically and internationally, and there is even no concept of platform leadership internationally. As the Chinese economy enters a stage of high-quality development led by innovation, the innovation ability of employees determines the long-term development of enterprises. However, it is worth further exploring how platform leadership can influence employees' innovative behavior and ability. Based on the social exchange theory, the Social cognitive theory and the ability motivation opportunity theory, this paper introduces four variables of organizational learning, knowledge sharing, coworker support and psychological empowerment as mediating variables, and constructs a multiple mediating model of platform leadership influencing employee innovation behavior. Based on multiple theoretical perspectives, this article analyzes and reviews the impact mechanism of platform leadership on employee innovation behavior, constructs an integrated theoretical model, and discovers the possible mediating factors and pathways that platform leadership may affect employee innovation behavior. At the same time, some of the mediating factors found in this article, such as organizational learning and colleague support, have not yet formed a unified consensus on the concepts, types, antecedents, and outcome variables of these two influencing factors in domestic and foreign research. This article attempts to construct a relationship between platform leadership and these two variables, which can fill the gap in the discussion on the relationship between organizational learning, coworker support and platform leadership. Finally, through literature review and theoretical model construction, the author found that in the era of China's digital economy, enterprises should cultivate and value platform based leadership.

KEYWORDS: Platform leadership, employee innovation behavior, organizational learning, knowledge sharing, coworker support, psychological empowerment

DOI: 10.62788/LfHkLRF

PUBLISHED IN: ICCMETS Conference Proceedings 2023

DATE OF CONFERENCE: July 25 - 27, 2023

CONFERENCE LOCATION: Osaka, Japan

PUBLISHER: EDUCATION STUDIO (THAILAND) CO., LTD.

ELECTRONIC ISBN: 978-616-7901-69-5

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