Antecedents of Competitive Advantage for Vietnamese Firms: The Roles of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning and Innovation

Abstract

Given the important role of innovation, this paper aims to clarify its antecedents and consequences by investigating influence of transformational leadership (TL), organizational learning (OL) and specific forms of innovation on differentiation competitive and low-cost competitive advantage. This study applied the structural equations modeling using the data collected from 315 participants of 63 manufacturing and service firms in Vietnam to test dual mediating roles of innovation speed and innovation quality in the relationship between TL, OL and competitive advantage. The empirical results have pointed out that TL and innovation speed have more significant influences on cost competitive advantage, meanwhile OL and innovation quality have more significant influences on differentiation competitive advantage. The finding of this paper significantly contributes to increasing the understandings and specific solutions for Vietnamese firms to pursue certain forms of competitiveness such as differentiation or low cost.

The Nexus Among Transformational Leadership and Firm Performance: Testing the Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing

“…First, the paper significantly contributes to filling the theoretical gaps and increasing the understanding of TL's effects on specific aspects of KS activities in supply chain networks. Indeed, knowledge is a pivotal resource of organization that bring firms a sustainable competitive advantage to survive before the increasingly changes of business environment and fierce competition Son and Phong, 2023;Than et al, 2023). Many organizations have invested the huge time, efforts and money for improving their organizational knowledge capital through enhancing KS activities in their firm.…”