Strategic leadership and firm performance: The mediating role of ambidexterity in professional services small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises
Ambilichu, Charles Anyeng and Omoteso, Kamil and Yekini, Liafisu Sina (2022) Strategic leadership and firm performance: The mediating role of ambidexterity in professional services small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises. European Management Review. ISSN 1740-4754
![[img]](/style/images/fileicons/text.png) |
Text
Accepted Manuscript- Strategic leadership and firm performance - Ambidexterity as mediator.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only until 19 December 2024. Download (575kB) |
Abstract
The role of strategic leadership is pivotal in determining a firm's direction and shaping its processes, competencies and performance. Strategic leadership also develops, deploys and reconfigures the firm's ambidextrous capabilities (such as innovativeness, competiveness and adaptability) that influence performance. Using responses from 315 UK small- and medium-sized accountancy firms, this study empirically investigates the extent to which the direct influence of strategic leadership on performance is mediated by the firm's ambidextrous orientation. With a variance accounted for of 57.78%, the results show that ambidexterity has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between strategic leadership and the performance of accountancy firms. Also, our findings show that the perception of environmental dynamism does not influence the ambidextrous orientation of these accountancy firms. In addition, increased firm's age does not necessarily lead to decreased performance resulting from inertia.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12548 | ||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | accountancy firms, ambidexterity, leadership, performance, strategy | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-01 - business and management (non-specific) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > Birmingham City Business School | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Gemma Tonks | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2023 13:40 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2023 13:40 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14285 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Tools
Tools