Agile Leadership and Bootlegging Behavior

Considering the rapid pace of change in the digital economy, agile leadership is undeniably crucial for organizational sustainability. In this modern business context, the critical contribution of subordinates is equally important for enhancing organizational competitiveness and innovation. However, whether employee underground efforts, known as bootlegging behavior, are instrumental to positive innovative objectives remains a controversial issue. The extant literature fails to account for how agile leadership impacts employees’ bootlegging behavior through the mechanisms of leadership coping dynamics. Therefore, expanding on prior research, this conceptual paper aims to provide a framework for understanding the influence of agile leadership and leadership coping dynamics on bootlegging behavior. The aim of this paper is to propose an integrative framework that illustrates the linkage between agile leadership and bootlegging behavior, with leadership coping dynamics as the mediator. This paper contributes to the management of entrepreneurial behavior by providing insight into the significance of agile leadership and leadership coping dynamics in fostering positive outcomes from bootlegging behavior.

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