ON THE PATH TOWARDS OPEN INNOVATION: ASSESSING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE ORIENTED LEADERSHIP WITH KNOWLEDGE CAPABILITIES

Arslan Najeeb Khan; Abeera Matloob Ahmad; Muhammad Shahid Tufail

Arslan Najeeb Khan Lyallpur Business School (LBS), Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Abeera Matloob Ahmad Lyallpur Business School (LBS), Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Shahid Tufail Professor, Department of Economics & Business Administration, University of Education, Lahore

Keywords: Knowledge Oriented Leadership, Knowledge Capabilities, Organization Open Innovation & Intellectual Capital

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the outcomes of the knowledge-oriented leadership on the organization’s open innovation through the mediating effect of the Knowledge Process Capability and Knowledge Infrastructure Capability and moderating role of Intellectual Capital. Data collection was done from the manufacturing sector through convenient sampling. The sample size was 105 respondents. The questionnaire was used and SEM is applied for the data analysis. The study concluded that there is a direct optimistic relation between KOL and OOI. Mediating role of KPC and KIC between KOL and OOI was found significant. Although the moderating results shows that by adding the intellectual capital as the moderator it increases the Organization’s KPC and KIC and in return organizations will become capable for increasing its open innovation’s targets. This study’s finding can be helpful for employers in adopting better open innovation’s trends with providing significant support for future investigation and research in related field.