Abstract
Individual innovation behavior is the driving force for enterprise sustainable development and can be affected by many factors, among which power distance is important. To explore the mediating mechanism and boundary conditions of power distance on individual innovation behavior, this paper constructed a moderated mediation model with task characteristics as the moderator and voice behavior as the mediator from the two-dimensional perspective of individual innovation behavior (innovative idea generation and implementation). Responses to 336 valid questionnaires from 133 technological innovation enterprises in China revealed that power distance has a negative effect on innovative idea generation, but a positive effect on innovative idea implementation. In this process, task characteristics only play a moderating effect in the relationship between power distance and innovative idea implementation, but fail to moderate the relationship between power distance and innovative idea generation. In addition, it was found that voice behavior mediates the relationship between power distance and individual innovation behavior. This study provides useful insight on the mechanism of organizational culture on individual innovation behavior, and suggests leaders take effective measures to improve the enterprise sustainable development ability.
Highlights
Innovation behavior is an important enterprise function as an enterprise assembly of industrial clusters innovation and is considered to be one of the important means in which to improve the ability of enterprise sustainable development [1]
The results in this study provide an interesting finding that power distance is not wholly negatively related to individual innovation behavior
When the individual innovation behavior is divided into two dimensions, the direct effect of power distance on them is different
Summary
Innovation behavior is an important enterprise function as an enterprise assembly of industrial clusters innovation and is considered to be one of the important means in which to improve the ability of enterprise sustainable development [1]. It has been found that the negative effect of power distance on individual innovation behavior often refers to innovative idea generation. Studies have shown that the effects of power distance on the generation and implementation of individual innovative ideas differ [37,38]. To better understand the effect of power distance on individual innovation behavior, this paper will discuss their relationship in the situation of task characteristics from the two-dimensional perspective of individual innovation behavior (innovative idea generation and implementation). This paper needs to solve three key problems: (1) The effect of power distance on innovative idea generation and implementation, respectively; (2) whether the effect of power distance on individual innovation behavior will be moderated by task characteristics; (3) whether voice behavior plays a mediating effect in the relationship between power distance and individual innovation behavior
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