Inclusive leadership and Entrepreneurial Team Performance: Evidence from China

Abstract

This study examined the influence mechanism of inclusive leadership on entrepreneurial team performance. Through questionnaires, this study found that leadership has a positive effect on business team performance, leadership has a positive effect on team climate and team engagement, team performance is positively influenced by an inclusive team atmosphere and team engagement, team inclusive atmosphere and team engagement play a mediating role, and leader group representative plays a positive moderating role. This paper opens up a new idea to study the influencing mechanism of inclusive leadership by taking leader group representative as a moderating variable, enterprises should pay more attention to the cultivation of leader group representative and creating an inclusive team atmosphere is very important.  Based on the combination of theory and empirical methods, this research firstly uses theoretical research and interview research to perform the theoretical abstraction of the mechanism of inclusive leadership on entrepreneurial team performance and clarifies the key elements and variables; secondly, specific cases are studied based on grounded theory, obtaining the theoretical framework of this paper; then combined with social learning theory and social exchange theory, this paper constructs a theoretical model of the impact of inclusive leadership on entrepreneurial team performance and proposes research hypotheses; finally, data are collected through questionnaires, and the proposed theoretical model is tested using team-level data and analysis, revealing the mechanism of the impact of inclusive leadership on entrepreneurial team performance. Finally, this paper draws the following conclusions.