TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the effect of transformational leadership on individual creativity in e-learning
T2 - a perspective of social exchange theory
AU - Zhang, Xi
AU - Zhang, Yuan
AU - Sun, Yongqiang
AU - Lytras, Miltiadis
AU - Ordonez de Pablos, Patricia
AU - He, Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number [71571133, 71201155].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education.
PY - 2018/11/2
Y1 - 2018/11/2
N2 - Individual creativity (IC) is regarded as the core driver of innovation in higher education. Information and communication technology supports the opportunity to study IC in the online environment. In addition, we believe that the role of transformational leadership (TL) has changed compared to the offline environment. In this research, we employ social exchange theory as our theory foundation and test the moderating effect of TL on knowledge sharing (KS), which is an important antecedent of IC in online circumstances. We designed this study in an eight-week course where teams were required to complete a project online. Two rounds of survey were performed to collect data. The results show that KS has a positive effect on IC, and TL has a significant moderate effect on the relationship between economic reward and KS. Implications for theory and practice, and limitations are also given.
AB - Individual creativity (IC) is regarded as the core driver of innovation in higher education. Information and communication technology supports the opportunity to study IC in the online environment. In addition, we believe that the role of transformational leadership (TL) has changed compared to the offline environment. In this research, we employ social exchange theory as our theory foundation and test the moderating effect of TL on knowledge sharing (KS), which is an important antecedent of IC in online circumstances. We designed this study in an eight-week course where teams were required to complete a project online. Two rounds of survey were performed to collect data. The results show that KS has a positive effect on IC, and TL has a significant moderate effect on the relationship between economic reward and KS. Implications for theory and practice, and limitations are also given.
KW - Transformational leadership
KW - e-learning
KW - individual creativity
KW - knowledge sharing
KW - social exchange theory
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U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2017.1296824
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2017.1296824
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014480403
VL - 43
SP - 1964
EP - 1978
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
SN - 0307-5079
IS - 11
ER -