“…Previous studies have revealed the crucial role of psychological empowerment in explaining the relationship between leadership styles and employees outcomes through mediating effect (Begum et al, 2020;Fong and Snape, 2015), moderating effect ( € Ozarallı, 2015) and as a direct determinant (Bester et al, 2015). Besides, recent findings emphasized the mediating effects of psychological empowerment in relationships between transformational leadership and organizational behaviors of employees and organizational success (Ali et al, 2020;Bose et al, 2020;Lei et al, 2020;Mansoor and Ali, 2020;Stanescu et al, 2020). Highly transformative leadership behavior increases employee ownership, laying the foundation for cohesion and a higher, more sustainable level of innovation capacity in family-owned firms (Rau et al, 2019;Stanescu et al, 2020).…”