Nuanluk Sangperm. Causal Model of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning, Absorptive Capacity, and Organizational Innovation of the Food Manufacturing Industry in Thailand. Doctor's Degree(Business Administration). Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi. Office of Academic Resource and Information Technology. : , 2021.
Causal Model of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning, Absorptive Capacity, and Organizational Innovation of the Food Manufacturing Industry in Thailand
Abstract:
The food industrial sector is crucial for the Thai economy for serving domestic and global demand. Firms operating in this sector have linkages along the entire supply chain from the agricultural sector, component manufacturing sector, through to the logistics and export sectors. Moreover, their innovations have played an important part in the further overall advancement of this business sector and transformational leadership is a key determinant to adopt innovation appropriately to specific firms in a particular industry. The objectives of this research were: 1) to verify the indirect effect of transformational leadership on organizational innovation through absorptive capacity as a mediator and organizational learning as a moderator of the food manufacturing industry in Thailand, and 2) to examine the influence of organizational learning as a moderator together with the influences of transformational leadership and absorptive capacity on organizational innovation of the food manufacturing industry in Thailand
This research applied quantitative research by the Moderated-Mediation Model to evaluate the empirical results. The populations were medium and large firms in the food manufacturing industry. A sample of employees, who work in product and process development of 200 firms in food industrial sectors were drawn from The Office of SMEs Promotion (OSMEP), using a stratified sampling method. In addition, in-depth interviews of experts and managers concerned with innovation in the food manufacturing industry were used to confirm the results of the hypothesis tested.
The results of this research indicated that transformational leadership had an influence on organizational innovation with organizational learning and absorptive capacity as related variables, such that: 1) organizational learning moderates the mediating effect of realized absorptive capacity on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation, and 2) the relationship between transformational leadership and realized absorptive capacity is moderated by organizational learning while the relationship between potential absorptive capacity and organizational innovation is moderated by organizational learning.