Organizational Innovation and Knowledge Creation Process as Mediator Linking Transformational Leadership to Corporate Performance of Community Enterprise Network in Community Enterprise in Lower Northern part 1 of Thailand
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The objectives of this research were to study the level of transformational leadership, organizational innovation, the knowledge creation process, and the results of the community enterprise network in the lower northern region 1 of Thailand, and to study the organizational innovation and the knowledge creation process as the linking factors to operating results. The research employs a mixed research method. The sample group in the research was 500 representatives of community enterprise members, according to the concept of Comrey & Lee (1992). Such the members’ stratified and simple samplings. For qualitative research, the researcher has designated a representative who is a leader of a community enterprise group that has received an outstanding award, 1 person per province, consisting of Tak, Phitsanulok, Petchabun, Sukhothai, and Uttaradit. The research tool was a questionnaire. The statistics utilized in this research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and dispersion coefficient values. The structural equation model (SEM) analysis using the Smart PLS 3.0 program was also conducted.
As results, it was found that: the levels of change leadership, organizational innovation, knowledge creation process and performance moderate are at the mean values of 2.97, 2.72, 3.13, and 2.65; the standard deviations were .227, .177, .124, and .166; and the distribution coefficients were .08, .07, .04, and .06, respectively; and the organizational innovation and knowledge creation processes have an indirect influence as the linking factor to the performance of 0.89, with a statistical significance of .01, which controlled the variability of organizational performance by 86 percent (R2= 0.86).
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