Transformational Leadership, Social Capital And Synergy Innovation: A Perspective Of Organizational Study

In an era of knowledge-based economy, massive knowledge spillover not only enhances the overall positive externality of the society significantly but also increases enterprise'innovation probability. However, enterprise's actual innovation performance is decided by their understanding on reintegration and reallocation of enormous human resource, social resource and knowledge capital inside and outside the organization. From the perspective of economics, synergy innovation is network integration on three essential elements that determine enterprise development including human, network and knowledge, which greatly reduces elements acquisition cost on the one hand, and produces synergistic effect with multiple functions on the other hand. Therefore, it can be regarded as Pareto optimal choice for enterprise's innovation.Although synergy innovation can fundamentally enhance enterprise's competitive edge, but this innovation mode hasn't drawn enough attention and recognition from academic community and business circle. Hence, accurate definition on synergy innovation connotation, influencing factor and its constitution element together with application and promotion in enterprise's innovation practice is the core of this theoretical research and also difficult point in enterprise practice. At present, relevant research on synergy innovation is still in its infancy, lacking of complete systematic analysis. Few researchers are successful in starting from the basic connotation of synergetic, failing to give systematic and accurate interpretations on essence and core influencing elements of synergy innovation. In the light of the above-mentioned issue, this article fills the research gap in this field, improves people's understanding on synergy innovation and provides guidance for enterprise to carry out synergy innovation practice.On the basis of absorbing quintessence in relevant research, by combining innovative performance from leading high-tech enterprises in Jiangsu province, this research dedicated to establishing innovative theoretical paradigm from the perspective of perception theory, puts forward and answers two core problems.Will transformational leadership and entrepreneurs social capital represents the essence influencing the synergy innovation?From systematic perspective, this article makes dynamic analysis on transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital, connotation and dimension of organizational learning together with self-organized process. It also discusses their influence, position and role in synergy innovation and synergic relationship and synergy degree. Then the paper puts forward the theoretical paradigm of synergy innovation and then points out that the very essence of synergy innovation is the innovation of knowledge.What's the mechanism of action regarding the impact of transformational leadership and entrepreneurs' social capital on the synergy innovation?Taking organizational learning as the medium, this article builds mechanism of interaction on synergy innovation by transformational leadership and entrepreneur s' social capital. In accordance with knowledge circulation path inside and outside of the enterprise, it discusses interaction and interrelationship between end genetic factor, transformational leadership and external influencing factors and entrepreneur's social capital, as weil as process mechanism transformed from organizational learning mechanism to enterprise innovation.Centering on the above two core problems, this research is carried out in six chapters. Main contents of each chapter are as below:The First Chapter: Introduction. This chapter is set against the macro background of China's independent innovation in an era of knowledge-based economy. Through analysis on the role and position entrepreneur and social capita! play in innovation, these chapters proposes the research subject and explains significance of subject selection, and also make an introduction on research method, object and structure. As the basis, this chapter paves way for further research.The Second Chapter: Literature Review. Through reviewing and commenting on theoretical connotation, representative viewpoints and development and evolution of transformational leadership, involving in theory model building, organizational learning theory, social capital theory and synergy innovation theory, this chapter describes internal logical relationship between theories and gaps in current research. This chapter is the theoretical foundation for the research.The Third Chapter: Theoretical basis. From the perspective of cognitive research, this chapter performs analysis on transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital, connotation and dimension of organizational learning together with self-organized process, pointing out their role as order parameter in synergy innovation, meanwhile, it also specifies the essence of knowledge innovation of enterprise synergy innovation. This chapter is the theoretical basis for the research.The Fourth Chapter: Theoretical Mode Building and Research Assumption Making. This chapter makes relevant theoretical assumption by combining the above-mentioned theoretical paradigm and existing demonstration achievement. It also establishes mechanism of interaction on synergy innovation by transformational leadership and entrepreneur's social capital through respectively taking organizational learning as the medium. This chapter is the empirical basis for this research.The Fifth Chapter: Research Design and Data Analysis. Through research design, questionnaire survey, regression analysis and structural equation model, this chapter makes complete empirical analysis and assumption verification on relationship path put forward by theoretical mode. This chapter is the empirical foundation for this research.The Sixth Chapter: Conclusion and Prospect. Through analysis on assumption verification, this chapter concludes and elaborates on research conclusion of this article, analyzes contribution and practical significance of research theory, proposes constructive suggestions for practical application and also points out research limitations and further research direction. This chapter is the systematic conclusion of this research.Through the above-mentioned analysis, this article proves theoretical mode in the former parts and make the following conclusions:Realization of enterprise synergy innovation is completely based on synergic action of three crucial elements including transformational entrepreneurs, entrepreneur's social capital and organizational learning. The role playing by enterprise nature, size, profit status, as well as sex, age, educational background and experience of entrepreneur is very limited.Transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital and organizational learning exert direct and positive impact on synergy innovation:the more open are the mental model of transformational entrepreneurs and incentive mechanism, the higher will be the level of synergy innovation of enterprise mental model; the richer will be entrepreneur's cognitive social capital, and the higher level of synergy innovation of enterprise's network structure; the wider in learning horizon, the more flexible in method, the higher synergetical level of enterprise network structure and mental mode.Regarding transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital and organizational learning:the more open in mental mode, incentive mechanism and individual learning of transformational entrepreneurs, the broader the learning horizon will be; the extent of openness in transformational entrepreneurs incentive mechanism exerts direct impact on organizational learning methods and entrepreneur' s relation-based and knowledge-based capital; entrepreneur's social capital can exert direct impact on organizational learning, but too limited.In terms of mediated relations between order parameters:organizational learning is the complete medium for transformational entrepreneurs and synergy innovation. But organizational learning doesn't produce mediating effect between entrepreneur's social capital and synergy innovation.This research has the following innovation points:1. Starting from enterprise innovation practice, the research integrates the transformational leadership, entrepreneurs'social capital, organized learning and synergy innovation into a theoretical framework and establishes enterprise's synergy innovation theoretical paradigm in China's situation for the first time. It is pioneering in putting forward two core problems of synergy innovation:Will the transformational leadership and entrepreneur's social capital affect the essence of the synergy innovation? If so, what's the interaction mechanism of transformational leadership and entrepreneurs' social capital impact on synergy innovation elements? This research fills the systematic research gap in this field.2. From the perspective of cognition, the research divides the transformational leadership into three dimensions comprising of mental mode, incentive mode and individual learning mode. At the same time, the research also divides the entrepreneurs' social capital into three dimensions of structure, relation and cognitive. Dividing the synergy innovation into the two dimensions of composing of the structure-based innovation and shared mental model. By doing this, this research comes up with new concept of breaking the limitation of other researches that only pays attention to entrepreneurs' external characters and behaviors. The research provided the insightful suggestions on the fundamental understanding of synergy innovation. This research adopts thoughts and methods from self-organization theory in synergetic and makes dynamic analysis on self-organization process of transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital and organizational learning in enterprise's life cycle. Therefore, it reveals the significance of entrepreneur's recognition ability, network capability and organized learning ability in synergy innovation process and meanwhile points out 3 crucial influencing elements of transformational leadership, entrepreneur's social capital and organizational learning in terms of realizing synergy innovation.3. Taking organizational learning as the medium, this article builds mechanism of interaction on synergy innovation by transformational leadership and entrepreneur's social capital. Through first-hand on-site data collected from part of representative high-tech enterprises in Jiangsu province; this article makes assumption verification on theoretical model by comprehensively applying various methods like factor analysis, regression analysis and structural equation model. The research facilitates the better understanding of the essence and the relations between the crucial influencing factor and interactive relations of the synergy innovation for academia and business community. The article also provided the important theoretical basis and solutions for the enterprise in terms of synergy innovation at macro and micro level and laid solid foundation for theoretical paradigm application of synergy innovations.