Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates

Technopreneur's activities have contributed to both economic development and digital transformation. Nowadays, business firms are urged to play a proactive role in the issue of digital transformation through technopreneurship. In the UAE, digital entrepreneurship is at its infancy stage, in whi...

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Main Author:	Alkhoori, Ahmed Abdulqader
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling	my-utem-ep.269042023-10-16T10:12:22Z Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates 2022 Alkhoori, Ahmed Abdulqader H Social Sciences (General) HD Industries. Land use. Labor Technopreneur's activities have contributed to both economic development and digital transformation. Nowadays, business firms are urged to play a proactive role in the issue of digital transformation through technopreneurship. In the UAE, digital entrepreneurship is at its infancy stage, in which most of the entrepreneurs regard digital transition as something new and they are not eagerly participated in it. Thus, as an initial step in developing a model of leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the UAE, this study was geared towards investigating the leadership factor’s intention towards successful technopreneurs. By integrating two popular intention-based models, the Transformational Leadership Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviors, this study attempted to explain the formation of intention towards leadership factors through digital enablers and entrepreneur skills. A conceptual model with six hypotheses were constructed to guide this study. This study employed a quantitative research method, in which questionnaires were used to collect data from 313 respondents among technopreneurs from the Innovation and Entrepreneur Centre, in Abu Dhabi. To empirically validate the model, the data were analysed statistically using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). It was found that all the three variables, leadership factors, digital enablers and entrepreneurial skill have strong effect on the success of technopreneur, particularly the entrepreneurial skills have the strongest effect. It was also found that digital enablers have partial mediating effects, while the entrepreneurial skills have moderating effects on the relationship between the leadership factors and the success of technoprenuers in the UAE. As for the leadership factors, the devolved decision making, collaborative achievement, agility, purpose and direction, and authenticity were proven significantly and positively related to the success of technopreneurs. Theoretically, these findings support the Transformational Leadership Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviors that both digital enablers and entrepreneurial skills influenced the effect of leadership factors on the individual’s intention to become successful technopreneurs. This model is a useful guidance especially for the government of UAE that are undergoing a series of digital transformation process to become the next technology start-up hub by the year 2030. 2022 Thesis http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26904/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26904/1/Leadership%20factors%20affecting%20the%20success%20of%20technopreneurs%20in%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates.pdf text en validuser http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26904/2/Leadership%20factors%20affecting%20the%20success%20of%20technopreneurs%20in%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates.pdf text en public https://plh.utem.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=122049 phd doctoral Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka Institute of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Sidek, Safiah
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description	Technopreneur's activities have contributed to both economic development and digital transformation. Nowadays, business firms are urged to play a proactive role in the issue of digital transformation through technopreneurship. In the UAE, digital entrepreneurship is at its infancy stage, in which most of the entrepreneurs regard digital transition as something new and they are not eagerly participated in it. Thus, as an initial step in developing a model of leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the UAE, this study was geared towards investigating the leadership factor’s intention towards successful technopreneurs. By integrating two popular intention-based models, the Transformational Leadership Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviors, this study attempted to explain the formation of intention towards leadership factors through digital enablers and entrepreneur skills. A conceptual model with six hypotheses were constructed to guide this study. This study employed a quantitative research method, in which questionnaires were used to collect data from 313 respondents among technopreneurs from the Innovation and Entrepreneur Centre, in Abu Dhabi. To empirically validate the model, the data were analysed statistically using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). It was found that all the three variables, leadership factors, digital enablers and entrepreneurial skill have strong effect on the success of technopreneur, particularly the entrepreneurial skills have the strongest effect. It was also found that digital enablers have partial mediating effects, while the entrepreneurial skills have moderating effects on the relationship between the leadership factors and the success of technoprenuers in the UAE. As for the leadership factors, the devolved decision making, collaborative achievement, agility, purpose and direction, and authenticity were proven significantly and positively related to the success of technopreneurs. Theoretically, these findings support the Transformational Leadership Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviors that both digital enablers and entrepreneurial skills influenced the effect of leadership factors on the individual’s intention to become successful technopreneurs. This model is a useful guidance especially for the government of UAE that are undergoing a series of digital transformation process to become the next technology start-up hub by the year 2030.
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qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author	Alkhoori, Ahmed Abdulqader
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title	Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates
title_short	Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates
title_full	Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates
title_fullStr	Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates
title_full_unstemmed	Leadership factors affecting the success of technopreneurs in the United Arab Emirates
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granting_department	Institute of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship
publishDate	2022
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