Generating and implementing innovative ideas is a key organizational effort to achieve superior performance and secure competitive advantages. Accordingly, the influence of strategic leaders on organizational innovation is increasingly drawing research attention. In this study, we review and synthesize research on how strategic leaders (chief executive officers, top management teams, and boards of directors) influence innovation and propose a framework to guide future research on this important topic. We explain how existing theories rely on discretional or architectural mechanisms to explain strategic leaders’ influence on innovation and review how current studies relate strategic leaders to the specific stages of the innovation process. We also discuss the role of the internal and external environment in moderating these relationships and provide an overview and criticism of theoretical and methodological issues. Overall, we discuss the most relevant findings of the field, analyze how specific suggestions drawn from our framework can contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the influence of strategic leaders on innovation, and propose multiple research opportunities.

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创新的战略领导力：未来研究的框架

产生和实施创新思想是组织取得卓越绩效并确保竞争优势的关键。因此，战略领导者对组织创新的影响越来越引起研究关注。在本研究中，我们回顾并综合了有关战略领导者（首席执行官，高层管理团队和董事会）如何影响创新的研究，并提出了一个框架来指导有关该重要主题的未来研究。我们将解释现有理论如何依靠自由裁量权或架构机制来解释战略领导者对创新的影响，并回顾当前的研究如何将战略领导者与创新过程的特定阶段联系起来。我们还将讨论内部和外部环境在调节这些关系中的作用，并对理论和方法论问题进行概述和批评。总体而言，我们讨论该领域最相关的发现，分析从我们的框架中得出的具体建议如何有助于全面理解战略领导者对创新的影响，并提出多种研究机会。