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The impact of principals' entrepreneurial leadership behaviour on school organizational innovativeness

Entrepreneurial leadership has been increasingly applied in various organizations to foster the process of innovation, face the challenges and crises of leadership in the current organization environments and consequently improve the performance of the organizations. However, research on the impact...

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Main Authors: Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Bagheri, Afsaneh
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Language:English
Published: Marsland Press 2013
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spelling my.upm.eprints.307542018-07-20T06:58:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30754/ The impact of principals' entrepreneurial leadership behaviour on school organizational innovativeness Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Bagheri, Afsaneh Entrepreneurial leadership has been increasingly applied in various organizations to foster the process of innovation, face the challenges and crises of leadership in the current organization environments and consequently improve the performance of the organizations. However, research on the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on the performance improvement of educational organizations and specifically school organizational innovativeness is scarce. Utilizing a sample of 300 public secondary school teachers in Malaysia, we examined the relationship between principal’s entrepreneurial leadership behaviour and school organizational innovativeness. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling. The results indicated that entrepreneurial leadership behaviour of principals had a significant positive impact on the teachers’ perceived school organizational innovativeness. More specifically, the findings of the study suggest that different aspects of principal’s entrepreneurial leadership behaviour improve the implemented organizational innovations and the changes they created in schools. Implications of the findings for school leadership research and practice are discussed. Marsland Press 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30754/1/The%20impact%20of%20principals.pdf Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah and Bagheri, Afsaneh (2013) The impact of principals' entrepreneurial leadership behaviour on school organizational innovativeness. Life Science Journal, 10 (2). pp. 1033-1041. ISSN 1097-8135; ESSN: 2372-613X http://www.lifesciencesite.com/lsj/life1002/ 10.7537/marslsj100213.145
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description Entrepreneurial leadership has been increasingly applied in various organizations to foster the process of innovation, face the challenges and crises of leadership in the current organization environments and consequently improve the performance of the organizations. However, research on the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on the performance improvement of educational organizations and specifically school organizational innovativeness is scarce. Utilizing a sample of 300 public secondary school teachers in Malaysia, we examined the relationship between principal’s entrepreneurial leadership behaviour and school organizational innovativeness. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling. The results indicated that entrepreneurial leadership behaviour of principals had a significant positive impact on the teachers’ perceived school organizational innovativeness. More specifically, the findings of the study suggest that different aspects of principal’s entrepreneurial leadership behaviour improve the implemented organizational innovations and the changes they created in schools. Implications of the findings for school leadership research and practice are discussed.
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Bagheri, Afsaneh
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30754/1/The%20impact%20of%20principals.pdf
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