Keywords
stimulative creative leadership
integrative creative leadership
managerial practices
managerial innovation
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Abstract
The present paper attempts to explore the relationship between creative leadership, employee intrapreneurship behavior, and managerial innovation. The endlessly changing environment faced by organizations led to the necessity of an in-time response and to the recognition of the place of creative leadership in fostering intrapreneurship and managerial innovation as a set of processes, practices, and tools leaders would adopt in order to create the conditions for an effective intrapreneurship. Based on a theoretical approach in which several papers were included, a conceptual model was developed in this research for a future empirical study, three relationships would be examined: the relationship between the dimensions of creative leadership and intrapreneurship, the effect of creative leadership on managerial innovation, and the moderating role of managerial innovation in the relationship between creative leadership and intrapreneurship. Lastly, this study seeks to highlight creative leadership as one of managerial innovation’s drivers and to draw the attention of academics and actors in the organization to managerial innovation since it remains
a developing topic in the literature.
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