Title: Predicting the relationship between leadership styles and entrepreneurial orientation and innovative behaviour in Indian immigrant firms

Authors: Raushan Gross; Emilyn Cabanda

Addresses: School of Business Management and Leadership, Pfeiffer University, 48380 US-52, Misenheimer, NC 28109, USA ' School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, USA

Abstract: This research is salient because of its unique inquiry into one of America's fastest growing entrepreneurial populations: Indian immigrants. Examining leadership styles and their relationship with employees' response behaviours in a cross-cultural context is important to researchers and academics alike. Through a quantitative analysis and cross-sectional research design, we found that leadership styles-transformational and transactional-indeed, predicted employees' innovative behaviour (IB) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) at the firm level. This paper has three significant findings: 1) transformational style is positively and significantly related to employee IB and EO; 2) transactional style is positively and significantly related to EO; 3) laissez-faire style is shown to be negatively and not significantly related to IB and EO. These findings have theoretical and practical implications to better understand the nature of Indian immigrant leaders' behaviours and the inter-film cultural factors that could either facilitate or impede employees' IB and EO.

Keywords: entrepreneurial orientation; immigrant entrepreneurship; Indian immigrant; cross-cultural entrepreneurship; innovative behaviour; leadership styles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSS.2017.087436

International Journal of Society Systems Science, 2017 Vol.9 No.3, pp.222 - 241

Received: 14 Dec 2016
Accepted: 18 Apr 2017
Published online: 15 Oct 2017 *

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