The Role of Leadership in the Knowledge Management and Innovation Processes in a Modern Organization
Articles
Zenona Ona Atkočiūnienė
Vilnius university, Lithuania
Daiva Siudikienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Ingrida Girnienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Published 2019-12-30
https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2019.86.27
PDF
HTML

Keywords

innovative leadership
leadership expression
leader communication
information and knowledge management
innovation

How to Cite

Atkočiūnienė, Z. O., Siudikienė, D., & Girnienė, I. (2019). The Role of Leadership in the Knowledge Management and Innovation Processes in a Modern Organization. Information & Media, 86, 68-97. https://doi.org/10.15388/Im.2019.86.27

Abstract

The ability to create innovations is one of the most important sources of a competitive advantage for
every modern organization, region, and state. In today’s context as a particularly significant problem arises the issue of the role of leaders in organizing effective knowledge management and innovation processes. Although the topic of leadership was analyzed quite extensively in the second half of the 20th century, in the 21st century, it is recognized that organizations of this age need a new quality of leadership, as the organizations themselves and their environments are undergoing profound changes. This paper analyzes the changing approaches to leadership and its role in a modern organization, focusing on the concept of innovative leadership and its peculiarities in order to identify the components of this phenomenon and their links to knowledge management and innovation processes. After analyzing significant aspects of this topic, identified were the relationships between innovative leadership, knowledge management, and innovation performance, as well as an integral theoretical model of innovative leadership, knowledge management, and innovation performance for driving continuous innovation performance has been developed.

PDF
HTML

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 > >>