Strategic Leadership Style And Clinical Innovation Adoption By Leaders In Nairobi's Public Referral Hospitals
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2025-12-04
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George G.Kirigi
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PAC University
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This study examined how strategic leadership style affects clinical innovation adoption in Nairobi’s public referral hospitals. The general objective was to assess how strategic leadership style influences clinical innovation adoption, focusing on leadership capabilities, innovation-oriented attributes, managerial tendencies, and fostering organizational innovation. The study drew from transformational, visionary, transactional, and coaching leadership theories using a positivist approach and a descriptive, cross-sectional survey design. Data from 189 participants across four referral hospitals were collected via digital questionnaires and analysed with STATA Version 15.1. Results presented textually and visually revealed varying association coefficients, with leadership capabilities showing the strongest positive association (β = 0.2145, 95% CI [0.0512, 0.3777], p = 0.01). Innovation-oriented attributes and managers’ attitudes had negative coefficients, while organizational innovation strongly correlated with adoption leadership. The study highlights the crucial role of strategic leadership style in driving innovation and suggests that healthcare leaders should focus on developing leadership capabilities. Insights are valuable for managers, policymakers, and educators in shaping theory, policy, and practice