Abstract
Based on social exchange theory, this research developed a theoretical model on the impact of the internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) of platform enterprises on employee innovation performance. Based on 414 employee data from 56 platform enterprises, hierarchical linear modeling was employed to test the model at two time points. The results revealed that the ICSR of platform enterprises has a significant positive effect on employee innovation performance, and employee intrapreneurship mediates the relationship; that is, the ICSR of platform enterprises promotes employees’ innovation performance by stimulating their intrapreneurship. Employees’ moral identity can also positively moderate the relationship between the ICSR of platform enterprises and employee intrapreneurship; the stronger the employees’ moral identity is, the stronger the positive impact of the platform’s ICSR is on the employees’ intrapreneurship. The relationship between the ICSR and employee innovation performance was clarified under platform economics. The current conclusions can guide platform enterprises’ innovation and sustainable development efforts.
Highlights
BackgroundPlatform enterprises, which represent an increasingly crucial business model, have received widespread attention in academia (Su et al, 2018; Wan et al, 2020)
The internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) scale was completed by enterprise employees; ICSR may vary at the enterprise level, it had to be aggregated at the enterprise level
With the theory of social exchange as its foundation, this study investigated the mechanism by which the ICSR of platform enterprises influences the innovation performance of employees through their employee intrapreneurship
Summary
Platform enterprises, which represent an increasingly crucial business model, have received widespread attention in academia (Su et al, 2018; Wan et al, 2020). This article focuses on internal platform–based enterprises that eliminate midlevel managers and transform each functional department into a platform where small and microenterprises and entrepreneurial teams are hatched and external construction creates a shared community ecosystem (Wan et al, 2020). Employees are authorized to form an inverted triangle organizational structure, with internal employees as the leading force and external users as the driving force of platform enterprises. Methods for improving employee innovation performance should be investigated by internal platform–based enterprises and academia
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