The impact of shared leadership on innovation performance

Abstract

In an era that innovation is the only everlasting advantage for an enterprise, the research on whether the shared leadership can enhance and promote the team innovation performance is still weak. In this paper, through the survey data of 285 questionnaires from 95 innovative teams, we explore the impact of shared leadership on innovative performance with knowledge sharing as a mediating variable and task complexity as a moderating variable. The results show that: shared leadership influences innovation performance partially through knowledge sharing as mediating role. In addition, shared leadership has a more significant impact on innovation performance under the condition of high task complexity, whereas the impact on innovation performance is more flat under the condition of low task complexity.