Mr. Fraidon Faryad and Dr. Habib Gul
Volume 5 Issue 2 | Jun 2022
DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2022.115
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Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of empowering leadership (EL) on ambidextrous (exploratory and exploitative) innovation and the mediating role of creative self-efficacy (CSE) in the telecom sector of Afghanistan on the basis of social exchange theory (SET). To achieve the goal a quantitative methodology was employed and analyses were performed using Smart-PLS (version 3.2.8) software. The results disclosed that Empowering leadership positively and significantly affects both exploratory and exploitative innovations. Furthermore, mediation analysis revealed that creative self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and exploratory and exploitative innovation. The findings on creative self-efficacy as a mediator can be considered a valuable contribution to the literature yet the current study had some limitations too, like using a convenience sampling method and collection of the data at one single point of time only.