Be so creative they can’t ignore you! How can entrepreneurial leader enhance the employee creativity?

Abstract In the present era, organizations are operating in an unpredictable environment due to rapid developments in technology. These conditions require organizations to use creativity to introduce new products and services in the market. Accordingly, scholars have introduced entrepreneurial leadership as a new leadership theory to cope with the dynamic changes in the 21 st century. Therefore, the current study aims to explore the influence of entrepreneurial leadership on employee creativity through employees’ knowledge sharing and learning goal orientation through the lens of social learning theory. The data (n = 265) were collected from the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. The results have shown the positive influence of entrepreneurial leadership on employee creativity. Besides, knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employee creativity. Moreover, the learning goal orientation moderates the relationship between knowledge sharing and employee creativity such that the mediation effect of knowledge sharing is stronger with a higher level of the learning goal orientation. Finally, this study has important implications for scholars and practitioners.