TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article presents four basic innovation leadership styles: charismatic, instrumental, strategic and interactive innovation leadership. The leadership styles and their characteristsics relate to process and product innovations in construction projects. A theoretical framework – which synthesizes these relations – enables explorative research into the effects of leadership on organizational innovativeness. Four case studies, observing the same manager in four comparable projects, explore the effects of each leadership style on a construction project’s innovativeness in ecological terms. On an analytical level the case study explorations indicate that a manager’s consistent performance of a leadership style stimulates the project’s ecological innovativeness when the manager also injects the project with ecological information, knowledge and competence. It also indicates that a manager’s consistent performance of a leadership style, without an injection of information, knowledge and competence in the project, does not stimulate the project’s ecological innovativeness.
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SN  - 1471-4175
DO  - 10.1108/14714170410815105
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14714170410815105
AU  - Bossink Bart A.G.
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Effectiveness of innovation leadership styles: a manager’s influence on ecological innovation in construction projects
T2  - Construction Innovation
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 211
EP  - 228
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -