Effect of Leadership and Innovations on Business Performance: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis

The cognitive intelligence is vital for human adaptation and subsistence. It encompasses wisdom and mental ability in regards to learning, evaluation and solving the problems. In almost all sectors, companies are facing acute competition. Employing cognitive intelligence, industries are adopting enormous operational excellence measures to thrive their success. Hence cognitive leadership is important driving force that influences the organizational success through the human capital. This research endeavors to study such cognitive leadership attempts in anticipating the vulnerability, defining and applying various strategies in creation of innovation nurturing environment. An influence of cognitive leadership in influencing the risk mitigation and non-technical innovation strategies is analyzed while examining their impact on the business success within a theoretical lens of socio-cognitive space and capabilities-based view (CBV) of strategic management frameworks using partial least squares (PLS) method of structural equations modelling (SEM).