Research Journal of Business Management1819-19322152-0437Academic Journals Inc.10.3923/rjbm.2014.43.56KimJeong Sik KangShin Ae ParkHyun Jung 1201481This study analyzes the relationship between a CEOs
leadership style and firm performance under conditions of perceived environmental
uncertainty. It also seeks to determine whether the impact of the CEOs
leadership on a firms subjective
and objective performance is significantly different. This study considered
the leadership styles of owner-managers and compared the effect of transformational
and transactional leadership on both objective and subjective firm performance.
Results supported the view that a transformational leadership style of a CEO
who owns and operates a firm positively influences both the objective and subjective
performance of the firm. Under uncertain conditions, the impact of the CEOs
transformational leadership style on firm performance became greater. The CEOs
transactional leadership style, contrastingly, was not found to significantly
impact the firms objective performance.
The impact of a CEOs transactional
leadership style on the firms
subjective performance was found to be greater in a context of high uncertainty.]]>Agle, B.R., N.J. Nagarajan, J.A. Sonnenfeld and D. Srinivasan,200649161174Avolio, B.J.,1999Pages: 234Pages: 234Bass, B.M.,1985Pages: 256Pages: 256Bass, B.M. and R.M. Stogdill,19903rd Edn.,Pages: 1182Pages: 1182Bass, B.M. and B.J. Avolio,19901990pp: 231-272pp: 231-272Bass, B.M. and B.J. Avolio,19952nd Edn.,Beyer, J.M. and L.D. Browning,199910483520Bliese, P.D.,20002000pp: 349-381pp: 349-381Burns, J.M.,1978Pages: 530Pages: 530Carmeli, A., J. Schaubroeck and A. Tishler,201122399411Colbert, A.E., A.L. Kristof-Brown, B.H. Bradley and M.R. Barrick,2008518196Duncan, R.B.,197217313327Elenkov, D.S.,200255467480Finkelstein, S. and D.C. Hambrick,1996Pages: 457Pages: 457Hambrick, D.C. and S. Finkelstein,19871987pp: 369-406pp: 369-406Hambrick, D.C. and P.A. Mason,19849193206Hung, R.Y.Y., B. Yang, B.Y.H. Lien, G.N. McLean and Y.M. Kuo,201045285294James, L.R., R.G. Demaree and G. Wolf,1984698598Judge, T.A. and R.F. Piccolo,200489755768Jung, D.I., C. Chow and A. Wu,200314525544Jung, D.I. and J.J. Sosik,200233313336Jung, D., F.J. Yammarino and J.K. Lee,200920586603Ling, Y., Z. Simsesk, M.H. Lubatkin and J.F. Veiga,200893923934Lowe, K.B., K.G. Kroeck and N. Sivasubramaniam,19967385425Lubatkin, M.H., Z. Simsek, Y. Ling and J.F. Veiga,200632646672Milliken, F.J.,198712133143Nayyar, P.R.,1992359851009Nunnally, J.C.,19782nd Edn.,Pages: 701Pages: 701Ostroff, C.,199277963974Pawar, B.S. and K.K. Eastman,19972280109Peterson, S.J., F.O. Walumbwa, K. Byron and J. Myrowitz,200935348368Podsakoff, P.M., S.B. MacKenzie and W.H. Bommer,199622259298Ryan, A.M., M.J. Schmit and R. Johnson,199649853882Shamir, B. and J.M. Howell,199910257283Shamir, B., R.J. House and M.B. Arthur,19934577594Tan, J.J. and R.J. Litsschert,199415120Tosi, H.J.,19821982pp: 222-233pp: 222-233Tosi, H.L., V.F. Misangyi, A. Fanelli, D.A. Waldman and F.J. Yammarino,200415405420Vera, D. and M. Crossan,200429222240Waldman, D.A. and F.J. Yammarino,199924266285Waldman, D.A., M. Javidan and P. Varella,200415355381Waldman, D.A., G.G. Ramirez, R.J. House and P. Puranam,200144134143Wang, H., A.S. Tsui and K.R. Xin,20112292105Whittington, J.L., P.H. Coker, V.L. Goodwin, W. Ickes and B. Murray,20093918601886Zhu, W., I.K.H. Chew and W.D. Spangler,2005163952Makri, M. and T.A. Scandura,2010217588