Title: Designing the leadership model for knowledge-based enterprises via mixed research methodology

Authors: Somayeh Salem; Hadi Teimouri; Mohammad Hossein Moshref Javadi; Ali Shaemi Barzoki

Addresses: Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran

Abstract: The current study aimed to design the leadership model for knowledge-oriented enterprises in Isfahan province via the mixed-research methodology and the use of the grounded theory in qualitative section. To this end, a group of primary themes was collected during a coding process and some categories were extracted besides performing open interviews with 17 senior managers of knowledge-based enterprises and academic experts. Then, the link between these categories was explained in the form of causal conditions, axial phenomenon, underlying conditions, intervening conditions, and strategies and consequences in the framework of coding paradigm and a theory was created. In the quantitative section, the governing relations and benefits of all major factors of the proposed qualitative model were evaluated and confirmed via structural equation modelling by means of AMOS software.

Keywords: leadership; leadership of knowledge-based enterprises; knowledge-based enterprises; knowledge employees; grounded theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2024.136406

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2024 Vol.33 No.2, pp.215 - 235

Received: 28 Jan 2021
Accepted: 26 May 2021
Published online: 01 Feb 2024 *

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