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

Yan Ling; Michelle Hammond; Liqun Wei

doi:10.1007/s11365-020-00695-6

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

Yan Ling^*, Michelle Hammond, Liqun Wei

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25–48
Number of pages	24
Journal	International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Volume	18
Issue number	1
Early online date	11 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00695-6
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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Management Information Systems
Management of Technology and Innovation

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Ambidexterity
China
Ethical leadership
Founder-CEO
Top management team

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