Paper Title
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovative Work Behavior: Investigating the Mediating Role of Perceived Self-Efficacy
Abstract
The primary goal of this paper is to reveal the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and innovative
work behavior. Besides this, it is intended to explore whether there is a mediating role of perceived self-efficacy on that
relationship. In order to scrutinize these relationships, a quantitative research was conducted on a carefully selected sample
of 174 employees from two medium-sized firms operating in information and technology sector. According to the results
obtained by analysing data acquired, it is observed that, entrepreneurial leadership has a positive effect on innovative work
behavior. Moreover, perceived self-efficacy plays a partial mediator role on the relationship between entrepreneurial
leadership and innovative work behavior. By the help of this paper, the importance of the effects of entrepreneurial
leadership and self-efficacy beliefs on innovative work behavior of employees is understood.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial leadership, Innovative work behavior, Perceived self-Efficacy