TY - JOUR KW - Workplace information literacy KW - innovation KW - SME KW - Leadership KW - CEO KW - Exploration and exploitation KW - Structural equation modelling KW - Workplace information literacy scale AU - Farhan Ahmad AU - Gunilla Widén AU - Isto Huvila AB - The present study investigates the relationship between CEO s information literacy and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Even if information literacy s business value has been recognized in recent literature, its impact on organizational innovation, a critical and strongly information intensive process, has never been studied before. Structural equation modeling based analysis of data collected from 184 company CEOs in Finland revealed that CEOs information literacy has a positive impact on the development of exploratory and exploitative innovations in SMEs. Additionally, opportunity recognition mediates the relationship between information literacy and innovation. Overall, the influence of information literacy is slightly stronger on exploitation than exploration. Nevertheless, the mutual positive effect suggests that information literacy enhances innovation ambidexterity in organizations. Based on these findings, we discuss theoretical and practical implications as well as future research opportunities in workplace information literacy research. BT - International Journal of Information Management DO - 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.102041 N2 - The present study investigates the relationship between CEO s information literacy and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Even if information literacy s business value has been recognized in recent literature, its impact on organizational innovation, a critical and strongly information intensive process, has never been studied before. Structural equation modeling based analysis of data collected from 184 company CEOs in Finland revealed that CEOs information literacy has a positive impact on the development of exploratory and exploitative innovations in SMEs. Additionally, opportunity recognition mediates the relationship between information literacy and innovation. Overall, the influence of information literacy is slightly stronger on exploitation than exploration. Nevertheless, the mutual positive effect suggests that information literacy enhances innovation ambidexterity in organizations. Based on these findings, we discuss theoretical and practical implications as well as future research opportunities in workplace information literacy research. PY - 2020 EP - 102041 T2 - International Journal of Information Management TI - The impact of workplace information literacy on organizational innovation: An empirical study VL - 51 SN - 0268-4012 ER -