A Quantitative Analysis of Strategic Leadership in Teamwork: Inspirations from the Case of the Game Named League of Legends (LOL)

Abstract

The effect of strategic leadership on organizational performance has been a hot topic of research for decades, and the general consensus has been reached in recent years: strategic leadership is essential in organization growth and development in the complex and increasingly competitive environment. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between characteristics of strategic leadership and organizational effectiveness. After analyzing the theory of the nature and mechanism of strategic leadership, this study was presented that since the decision made by the leader can only be implemented on condition that team members cooperate with each other to carry out the plan, the strategic leadership cannot directly influence the team effectiveness and vitality, therefore, the intermediary variable is supposed to be included to guarantee the plausibility of the hypothesis. The research has discussed that strategic leadership is mirrored from three aspects: leaders' qualities, organizational abilities and interaction abilities; and team members also need three processes from obtaining information to implementation: perception, listening and execution as a theoretical model to study the mechanism of strategic leadership. In this study, the league of legends team competition as a research case, the game players conducted a questionnaire survey. A total of 300 valid questionnaires were collected. The statistical analysis, correlation analysis and intermediary regression analysis were used in order to verify through empirical research all of the interactions between elements.