MGT5OBR Organisational Behaviour: Assessment 2 Article Analysis

This assignment analyzes the journal article "Management Innovation and Leadership: The Moderating Role of Organizational Size" by Vaccaro, Jansen, Van Den Bosch, and Volberda (2012). The assignment begins with a detailed summary of the article, identifying key concepts such as management innovation, leadership behavior, and organizational size, and highlighting the study's research questions and data collection methods. The analysis focuses on the research findings, which reveal the influence of leadership behavior on management innovation, moderated by organizational size. The student critically evaluates the article's contribution to the field, acknowledging its enhancement of knowledge regarding organizational behavior, leadership, and management innovation while also pointing out the absence of practical business examples. The assignment concludes with a discussion of the authors' recommendations for future research, specifically the need for further investigation into the adoption of appropriate leadership styles based on enterprise size.

MGT5OBR – Assessment 2 Draft Template
Student Name: Student ID:
Topic: Workshop Time:
Workshop Facilitator Name:
Instructions: Read one of your selected articles and complete this form to the best of your ability. Submit a
copy of the completed form to the link on the LMS. You can mention any parts of the article that you did
not understand or points that you were unclear about.
Author(s): Add lines as necessary
1. Ignacio G. Vaccaro
2. Justin J. P. Jansen
Year of publication: January 2012
Volume, Issue, Pages: vol (49)-, pages- 28-51
Title of Article: Management Innovation and Leadership:
The Moderating Role of Organizational Size
Title of Journal: Journal of management Studies
Transfer the above information into a full reference, following either the current version of APA or
Harvard style guidelines:
Vaccaro, I. G., Jansen, J. J., Van Den Bosch, F. A., & Volberda, H. W. (2012). Management innovation
and leadership: The moderating role of organizational size. Journal of Management Studies, 49(1),
28-51.
Identify key issues, concepts (ideas), propositions or theories that the author(s) discussed in the
literature review. How have these issues informed or influenced the current study and its research
questions? Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
The key concepts that are discussed in this article are management innovation, leadership behaviour and
organizational size. The issue that is identified is that organizational size influencing the leadership
behaviour and management innovation within the workplace.
Briefly note the data collection and analysis methods. Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
The researcher has used primary data collection method for conducting this study. The quantitative data
analysis method was adopted by using survey questionnaire procedure.
Who was studied in this research? Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
The leaders adopting different leadership style such as transformational and transactional are aminly
studied in this research study.
Briefly describe the research findings. Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words

The findings of the research study reflects that leadership behaviour influences management innovation
but both is dependent on organizational size. Based on the enterprise size, the leaders adopt their style
in order to achieve success in innovation.
Critical analysis – How has this research study contributed to knowledge on this topic? What gaps
remain? Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
Tis research study has enhanced my knowledge about organizational behaviour, leadership behaviour
and management innovation. It helped me to know about the factors that influences positive enterprise
behaviour and culture. The gaps that remained in this study is that practical examples relating to
business is not mentioned.
What are the authors’ suggestions or recommendations for future research? Paraphrase – i.e., use your
own words:
The authors have suggested to do future research on adoption of proper leadership style in enterprise
depending on their size.