Breaking Free: Leaders' Strategies for Loosening the Bind of Entrenchment to Lead Innovation
研究领导者如何通过“走出去”和“沉浸式”两种策略摆脱经验固化带来的认知束缚，从而提升创新决策能力，为领导力理论与实践提供框架。
As leaders hone their expertise through experience, they become susceptible to entrenched knowledge structures that can hinder innovative decision making. Yet, little is known about how leaders break free from this bind. This research explores leaders’ break-free strategies using a four-step, multi-method research design that includes (a) exploring leaders' awareness of entrenchment and the strategies they use to break free from it, (b) conceptualizing two primary break-free strategies, “venture-out” and “immerse-in,” based on insights from leaders’ narratives and relevant literature, (c) uncovering the distinct effects of these strategies on leaders' innovative decision-making, and (d) identifying features of break-free strategies to develop an organizing framework. This research contributes to leadership theory and practice by offering a framework at the intersection of expertise and innovation, showing how leaders can break free from entrenchment to lead innovation.