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To investigate how digital leadership affects organizational performance directly and indirectly through employee innovative work behavior, and to test the moderating role of digital transformation capability.

August 19, 2026Strategy and Leadership

Digital leadership and organizational performance in industry 4.0: a conditional process model of digital transformation capability and innovative work behavior

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To investigate how digital leadership affects organizational performance directly and indirectly through employee innovative work behavior, and to test the moderating role of digital transformation capability.
Conducted a time-lagged survey of N=400 employees working across manufacturing organizations in Gujarat and Pune, India.
Evaluated direct, mediating, and moderating structural relationships using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM).
Digital leadership positively and significantly influences both innovative work behavior and organizational performance.
Innovative work behavior partially mediates the relationship between digital leadership and organizational performance.
Digital transformation capability significantly strengthens the direct relationship between digital leadership and organizational performance, although moderated mediation was not supported.

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Time-lagged survey demonstrates that digital leadership enhances performance via innovative behavior in manufacturing employees, highlighting the value of digital transformation capabilities.

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Mandal et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8563c403308d306e2d71ce https://doi.org/10.1108/sl-06-2026-0285

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Implication

Time-lagged survey demonstrates that digital leadership enhances performance via innovative behavior in manufacturing employees, highlighting the value of digital transformation capabilities.

Digital leadership and organizational performance in industry 4.0: a conditional process model of digital transformation capability and innovative work behavior

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Digital leadership and organizational performance in industry 4.0: a conditional process model of digital transformation capability and innovative work behavior

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