The Digital Entrepreneurship Era: How to Motivate Innovativeness in Middle Management Teams? The Vertical Organisational Pervasiveness of Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneurial Orientation.

ABSTRACT: Social information processing theory suggests that the chief executive officer's entrepreneurial orientation (CEO EO) is an organisational signal that influences the members' innovativeness. Middle management teams (MMTs) are expected to be more innovative as they connect senior managers with frontline managers in the dynamic competitive environment of the digital economy. How CEOs guide MMT innovations through EO becomes critical in the process of capturing opportunities and creating value. However, previous research has failed to adequately identify distinct CEO EO manifestations with organisational contexts configurations that influence MMTs innovation. Thus, based on differences in organisational contexts and MMTs' cognition, this study thoroughly investigates how the vertical manifest

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9009334 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature