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How does entrepreneurial leadership affect employees’ taking charge? A cross-level moderated mediation process

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  • Qin Lin

    (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

  • Lingfeng Yi

    (East China Normal University)

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Drawing on the proactive motivation model, this study aims to investigate how entrepreneurial leadership at the organizational level influences employees’ taking charge at the individual level, as mediated by thriving at work and moderated by employees’ autonomy orientation. Through a two-wave questionnaire survey of 356 employees from high-tech enterprises in China, this study uses multilevel structural equation modeling to test the proposed hypotheses. The results show that organizational entrepreneurial leadership has a positive impact on individual employee taking charge and thriving at work partially mediates this relationship across levels. Additionally, employees’ autonomy orientation positively moderates not only the effect of thriving at work on employees’ taking charge but also the mediation of thriving at work in the aforementioned relationship. This study advances knowledge about entrepreneurial leadership stimulating employees’ intrinsic motivation to drive their taking charge. The psychological perspective and cross-level process deepen the research on entrepreneurial leadership effectiveness and employees’ proactive behavior, and further provide empirical evidence for executives to prompt employees to take charge.

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  • Qin Lin & Lingfeng Yi, 2025. "How does entrepreneurial leadership affect employees’ taking charge? A cross-level moderated mediation process," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 42(1), pages 405-425, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:asiapa:v:42:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s10490-023-09943-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10490-023-09943-z
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