Leadership Styles and Organizational Design: a short literature review about the impact of these two aspects on innovation processes and activities
1. Article about Leadership Styles and Innovation Innovation, as stated by Drucker (2006, p. 252), is “a change in market or society. It produces a greater yield for the user, greater wealth-producing capacity for society, higher value or greater satisfaction.” He argues that innovation is fully perceptual as much as conceptual, building the point that in any innovation process intuition is not enough, requiring detailed and rigorous logical analysis. Moreover, Drucker posits that entrepreneurs, as leaders of business organizations, should be avid of market-driven innovation. A great amount of research has been done about the relationship between leadership and innovation, such is the case of the paper The Influence of Leadership on Innovation Processes and Activities (Oke, Munshi, & Walumbwa, 2009) . This part of the report aims to explore the main ideas presented in that paper. Firstly, the authors consider that knowledge by becoming a commodity for entrepreneurship,