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Ethical leadership and ambidexterity in young firms: examining the CEO-TMT Interface

Authors: Yan Ling, Michelle Hammond, Li-Qun Wei

Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Issue 1/2022

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To enrich the knowledge of the value of ethical leadership in a more entrepreneurial setting, we focus on technology-based young firms and theorize through the lens of CEO-TMT interface whether and how founder-CEOs’ ethical leadership influences young firms’ ambidexterity. We argue that founder-CEOs’ ethical leadership can enhance young firms’ ambidexterity in an indirect way, through promoting top management team (TMT) members’ advice-seeking behavior and team satisfaction. Data from a multi-source and time-lagged survey of founder-CEOs and all TMT members in 81 Chinese technology-based young firms supported our predictions. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study to the extant research.

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Title: Ethical leadership and ambidexterity in young firms: examining the CEO-TMT Interface
Authors: Yan Ling
Michelle Hammond
Li-Qun Wei
Publication date: 11-08-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Electronic ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00695-6

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