Entrepreneurial Leadership - Orchestrating Resources for Success

Entrepreneurial leadership (EL) significantly affects entrepreneurial success, particularly through the mediating roles of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and innovation capability. Research involving 401 micro-business owners in Malaysia found that EL's effect on success is conditional on these mediating factors, with opportunity recognition and innovation capability partially mediating the relationship and serving as serial mediators. Entrepreneurial leaders effectively orchestrate resources, recognize opportunities, and foster innovation capability to gain competitive advantage. This research contributes a theory-based mediation model demonstrating how EL and entrepreneurial success are related, shedding new light on the mechanisms through which leadership translates into venture outcomes.