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Meaning-based Leadership, Team Value Alignment, and Team Strategy Implementation

Daan van Knippenberg et al.

Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies2026https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518261421710article
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Abstract

The core role of leadership is to mobilize and motivate members for pursuits that serve the organization's purpose, such as organizational strategy. The concept of meaning-based leadership, leader advocacy of the meaning organizational purpose gives to the work, was proposed in recognition of this role. We study the indirect influence of team leader meaning-based leadership on team strategy implementation (efforts to put organizational strategy into practice) as it is mediated by team value alignment – team similarity with top management in perceptions of organizational values. We propose that higher-level meaning-based leadership – the meaning-based leadership from the team leader's direct superior – moderates the influence of team leader meaning-based leadership: team leader meaning-based leadership is a stronger influence on team value alignment and, mediated by team value alignment, team strategy implementation with more higher-level meaning-based leadership. We found support for this research model in a survey of N = 421 teams from an energy company.

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@article{daan2026,
  title        = {{Meaning-based Leadership, Team Value Alignment, and Team Strategy Implementation}},
  author       = {Daan van Knippenberg et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518261421710},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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