How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model

Abstract Platform leadership emphasizes shared goals, unlocking potential, and generating positive impacts for both leaders and subordinates. This style greatly influences frontline nurses’ attitudes and behaviors, underscoring the need to study how it stimulates innovation. Using 422 questionnaires...

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Main Authors: Ning Li, He Wang
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Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-06-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04018-z
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description Abstract Platform leadership emphasizes shared goals, unlocking potential, and generating positive impacts for both leaders and subordinates. This style greatly influences frontline nurses’ attitudes and behaviors, underscoring the need to study how it stimulates innovation. Using 422 questionnaires from 52 hospitals, internal mechanisms of platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovation were analysed with Mplus 8.0 and HLM 6.08. The study uncovered the following results: Firstly, platform leadership was positively correlated with frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. Secondly, leader–member exchange (LMX) and relational energy served as mediators between platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. Thirdly, the error management climate was positively correlated with frontline nurses’ innovative behavior and acted as a moderator in the relationship between platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. The study’s findings reveal the internal mechanisms of platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior, offering valuable insights for organizational improvement.
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spelling doaj-art-a5abb9c7f03743c8ac948a09c01b06c82025-08-20T03:26:42ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-06-0115111310.1038/s41598-025-04018-zHow platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation modelNing Li0He Wang1School of Economics Management, Pingdingshan UniversitySchool of Business Administration, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and EconomyAbstract Platform leadership emphasizes shared goals, unlocking potential, and generating positive impacts for both leaders and subordinates. This style greatly influences frontline nurses’ attitudes and behaviors, underscoring the need to study how it stimulates innovation. Using 422 questionnaires from 52 hospitals, internal mechanisms of platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovation were analysed with Mplus 8.0 and HLM 6.08. The study uncovered the following results: Firstly, platform leadership was positively correlated with frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. Secondly, leader–member exchange (LMX) and relational energy served as mediators between platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. Thirdly, the error management climate was positively correlated with frontline nurses’ innovative behavior and acted as a moderator in the relationship between platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior. The study’s findings reveal the internal mechanisms of platform leadership and frontline nurses’ innovative behavior, offering valuable insights for organizational improvement.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04018-zPlatform leadershipLeader–member exchange (LMX)Relational energyError management climateInnovative behaviour
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How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
Scientific Reports
Platform leadership
Leader–member exchange (LMX)
Relational energy
Error management climate
Innovative behaviour
title How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
title_full How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
title_fullStr How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
title_full_unstemmed How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
title_short How platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses: a cross-level moderated mediation model
title_sort how platform leadership stimulates innovative behavior in frontline nurses a cross level moderated mediation model
topic Platform leadership
Leader–member exchange (LMX)
Relational energy
Error management climate
Innovative behaviour
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04018-z
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