Chang et al. (2017), Leadership & Organization Development Journal

Transformational leadership and corporate entrepreneurship

Across 55 units in 27 firms, units with more transformational leadership showed more corporate entrepreneurship, partly through members' shared belief that they could succeed together, and the firm's empowerment climate shaped how strongly that worked.

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