본 연구는 프로젝트 팀장의 기업가적 리더십이 부하의 혁신행동에 미치는 영향을 규명하고, 조직의 혁신분위기가 상사의 기업가적 리더십과 혁신행동 사이의 관계를 매개하는지를 밝히고자 하였다. 기업가적 리더십이 혁신분위기를 조성함으로써 연구개발 프로젝트에 소속된 팀원의 혁신행동을 이끌어냄을 실증하였다. 실증연구를 위한 자료는 국내 5개 조직의 연구개발 프로젝트 팀원 225명을 대상으로 설문조사를 하였고, 최종 분석에는 166명의 설문자료를 이용하였다. 본 연구의 분석결과를 살펴보면, 기업가적 리더십은 혁신행동에 유의한 정의 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 혁신분위기는 기업가적 리더십과 혁신행동 간의 관계를 완전 매개하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 기업가적 리더십은 연구개발 프로젝트 팀의 혁신분위기를 통해서만 혁신행동을 유발하였다. 연구결과를 토대로 연구의 시사점과 한계점 및 향후 연구과제를 제시하였다.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurial leadership on innovative climate and innovative behavior. In addition, we attempt to verify the mediating effect of innovative climate on the relationships between entrepreneurial leadership and innovative behavior. While prior studies have usually tackled the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and innovative behavior, they have rarely examined the mediating effects of innovative climate on these relationships. To test the proposed hypotheses in our study, we collected data via a survey on data 225 employees in 5 R&D organizations, and after excluding unanswered items questionnaires, total of 166 employees data is used for analysis. The major findings are as follows: First, as predicted, a project leader's entrepreneurial leadership was positively associated with innovative behavior. Second, innovative climate has turned out to have a full mediation effect on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and innovative behavior. thus providing evidence that entrepreneurial leaders are likely to exert their influence on followers by affecting their feelings of innovative climate. This result indicated that the effects of entrepreneurial leadership on followers’ innovative behavior are indirect, rather than direct, in that they are fully mediated by followers’ perception of innovative climate. That is, implying that one key factor that influences employee’s innovative behavior is entrepreneurial leadership. Based on these findings, implications of the research findings are discussed, and recommendations for future research are provided.