Transformational Leadership, Absorptive Capacity, and Organizational Innovation in Food Manufacturing Industry in THAILAND

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The purpose of this research was to verify the indirect effect of transformational leadership on organizational innovation through absorptive capacity. The questionnaires were developed from a review of the literature and led to devising variables applied to the data collection. The respondents were employees, who are working in product and process development aspects in the firms.  The number of samples in this research were 200 firms in food manufacturing industry and used the PROCESS MACRO for analyze the data. Found that transformational leadership wields an influence on organizational innovation, and absorptive capacity. In addition, the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation is mediated by absorptive capacity and the absorptive capacity is a full mediator.