The Impact of Strategic Leadership on Innovation Ambidexterity: The Mediating Effect of Social Capital

This study focused on the strategic leadership in the organization and the internal and external social capital can be seen as the ambidexterity innovation assets for building organization capability. The research selected 500 top managers and 385 ones were returned, using purposive sampling in Southern Tainan Real Estate firms as subjects to explore the interactions and relationships among strategic leadership, social capital, innovation ambidexterity, and contextual ambidexterity, and examines the fitness of model in this study. The data were analyzed by a variety of statistical methods, such as regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, ANOVA, and SEM to test the hypotheses of this study and model fitness. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Strategic leadership has significant positive influence on social capital and innovation ambidexterity. (2) Social capital has significant positive influence on innovation ambidexterity. (3) Good model fitness of relationship exists among each construct, and the social capital has significant mediating effects between strategic leadership and innovation ambidexterity. (4) The relationship between social capital and innovation ambidexterity has a moderating influence of contextual ambidexterity.