Entrepreneurial leadership, organizational resilience, and learning: Basis for innovative performance framework

The study aimed to evaluate the entrepreneurial leadership, organizational resilience and organizational learning of automotive industry in China that was made the basis in developing an Innovative Performance framework for SME's automotive industry.Descriptive design was utilized in the study as it shed light in describing the current situation in the automotive industry.Survey questionnaire was used as the data gathering instrument as it is considered a valuable tool in gathering data in the automotive industry and how the respondents perceive the relationships of leadership, resilience and learning to innovative performance.The 400 employees from five leading automotive companies in Shanghai and Guangdong province were used as the research participants.Based from the results, the respondents revealed strong agreement on the entrepreneurial leadership as having visionary mindset, committed to innovation and having strong people's skills.The respondents revealed strong agreement on the importance of relationship resilience, financial resilience and technology resilience for the organization leaders.Further, strong agreement was also found on their organizational learning as to learning orientation, infrastructure and agility that contributes to more innovative and dynamic organizations.There is a high significant relationship between entrepreneurial leadership, organizational resilience and organizational learning.An innovative performance framework was developed for the competitive edge among automotive industries.