Multiple Mechanisms Affecting Service Innovation Performance in the Post-COVID-19 Era: The Impact of Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

Tso Jen Chen; Chi Min Wu; Shih Hao Chen; Su Chen Hsieh; Shang Fang Hsu

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Multiple Mechanisms Affecting Service Innovation Performance in the Post-COVID-19 Era: The Impact of Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

Tso Jen Chen, Chi Min Wu, Shih Hao Chen, Su Chen Hsieh, Shang Fang Hsu

Published in International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 4)

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This study aims to explore the causal relationship among participative leadership, knowledge sharing, and service innovation performance in the hotel context of post epidemic era. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, many industries have been affected, especially the hotel industry, which has been severely impacted. Therefore, in the post-epidemic era, hotel managers began to think about how to improve the knowledge sharing efficiency and service innovation performance of their hotel employees in product or service processes. A valid sample of 126 hotel industry employees was investigated in this study, and the collected data were used for subsequent statistical analysis. This main purpose of this study is to explore how participative leadership can influence employees’ service innovation performance via knowledge sharing of post epidemic era. Based on the concept of reciprocity and mutual feedback of social individuals in social exchange theory, combined with the perspective of leadership theory, this study points out that participative leadership can effectively influence hotel employees to carry out a higher degree of knowledge sharing. On the other hand, from the literature on knowledge management and service innovation performance, this study points out that knowledge sharing can help hotel staffs exhibit better service innovation performance. Finally, this study also performs a Sobel test to verify that knowledge sharing plays a mediating role between participative leadership and service innovation performance. Implication for hotel managers and practical suggestions were discussed.

Published in	International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijefm.20231104.13
Page(s)	188-192
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Participative Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, Psychological Empowerment, Service Innovation Performance

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Tso Jen Chen, Chi Min Wu, Shih Hao Chen, Su Chen Hsieh, Shang Fang Hsu. Multiple Mechanisms Affecting Service Innovation Performance in the Post-COVID-19 Era: The Impact of Leadership and Knowledge Sharing. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2023;11(4):188-192. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20231104.13

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Tso Jen Chen

Department of Business Administration, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
Chi Min Wu

Department of Recreation and Healthcare Management, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
Shih Hao Chen

Department of Fashion Design and Management, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
Su Chen Hsieh

Department of Recreation and Healthcare Management, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
Shang Fang Hsu

Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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