Abstract:

This study proposes a theoretical model to examine the relation between leadership, organizational culture and innovation in Portuguese organizations from different activities sectors. A total of 102 organizations from different activity sectors participated in the study. Two different questionnaires were administered, in each organization. Top managers were asked about the innovation activity and employees were asked about the leadership and organizational culture of their organization. Results from a structural model, tested by multi-group analysis, considering technology-based organizations in one model (n = 464) and the non-technology-based organizations from other industries (n =385), shows significant differences in the relationship between leadership and organizational cultural in the prediction of innovation and also on the contribution of the several variables in the model, suggesting that activity sector of organization (technology-based vs. non-technology based organizations) acts as a moderator of that relationship. Some contributions are highlight.