Innovative Climate Research Articles

Innovation climate for individual motivation and innovation performance: Is innovative behavior a missing link?

This study empirically examines the impact of individual motivation on innovation performance, where innovative behavior serves as a mediating construct, and discusses whether the innovation climate has a moderating effect. This study combines the Cognitive Evaluation Theory and behavioral performance to develop a new theoretical method for explaining the relationships between individual motivation, innovative behavior, and innovation performance. Data collected via a field study of 250 subjects who participated in a science and technology competition were analyzed using a PLS-SEM model. Barron and Kenny's mediation test and the bootstrapping method were used to evaluate the model and confirm the mediation and moderation effects, respectively. Robustness checks were conducted to exclude nonlinearity and heterogeneity in the model. The results show that individual motivation positively promotes innovation performance, in which innovative behavior plays an intermediary role, and that innovation climate moderates the relationship between innovative behavior and innovation performance. According to the results of this field study, stimulators concerning motivation and climate should be primarily considered by managers to boost innovation performance.

Sustainable Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, and Frugal Innovation: The Moderating Role of Organizational Innovation Climate

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between sustainable leadership styles and frugal innovation in SMEs in the Chinese context. We also investigate the role of knowledge sharing as a mediator in the relationship between SL-FI. Furthermore, this study introduces the situational variable organizational innovation climate to explore its moderating role between KS-FI. The data were collected from corporate employees of SMEs in China’s manufacturing and service industries, with a 67.7% response rate on the questionnaire. The hypotheses were tested in this study using SmartPLS 4.0.8.7, and the empirical findings of this study revealed that sustainable leadership positively affects frugal innovation, with the knowledge-sharing process serving as a partial mediating effect. In addition, the results revealed that a higher level of organizational innovation climate will result in a higher effect of knowledge sharing on frugal innovation. The results of the current study provide insights and empirical evidence on the importance of frugal innovation in emerging markets and the ability to improve firms’ frugal innovation through leadership practices and knowledge resources. The current study provides a new contribution as it links sustainable leadership, knowledge sharing, and frugal innovation in the context of China as an emerging country. The research findings contribute to expanding the literature in the area of leadership styles and innovation, and provide practical insights for policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others in developing countries and emerging market SMEs.

A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCING MECHANISM OF SHARED LEADERSHIP STYLE ON TEAM INNOVATION PERFORMANCE: MEDIATED BY KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION CLIMATE

This study mainly used a combination of qualitative and quantitative mixed method to investigate the mechanism of shared leadership style's influence on team innovation performance. Through the survey, descriptive statistical analysis, CITC test, factor analysis and testing the reliability and validity of the questionnaire were performed for each variable. Correlation analysis and control variables ANOVA were used, and the model was validated. 
 The study found that shared leadership styles positively contribute to (shared transformational leadership, shared transactional leadership, and shared empowerment leadership) team innovation performance, and organizational innovation climate and knowledge sharing have a mediating role in the relationship between shared transformational leadership and shared transactional leadership, i.e., shared transformational leadership and shared transactional leadership styles contribute to team innovation performance through the mediating role of organizational innovation climate and knowledge sharing. Discussion and recommendations around each finding were also provided by the researcher by the end of the study.

The Impact of Organizational Innovation Climate on Employee Innovation Behavior in Emissions Control Enterprises : an Empirical Study in China

The Impact of Organizational Innovation Climate on Employee Innovation Behavior in Emissions Control Enterprises : an Empirical Study in China

Enhancing open innovation: Managing not invented here syndrome in collaborative projects

Despite having consensus on the negative relationship between individuals' biased attitude towards externally generated ideas and the applicability of inbound open innovation (OI) as a strategy, we find a gap in the literature regarding how individual unwillingness – not-invented-here syndrome (NIHS) – actually affects the innovation performance achieved through collaboration and what management tools are available to counter it. This study addresses these two questions by testing the relationship between NIHS and innovation performance and the impact of innovation climate as a way to reduce this negative attitude. Based on quantitative survey data collected from 250 firms across France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, we confirm that innovation climate is a useful management tool for managing NIHS by opening individuals towards external ideas, ultimately helping firms to improve their innovation performance through collaboration. Most interestingly, we also find that the impact of NIHS on inbound open innovation performance achieved through a collaborative project is mediated through external social capital rather than having a direct impact. Since external social capital serves as a link between two collaborating firms, it's weakening caused by NIHS, subsequently leads to reduced project performance achieved through the inbound OI strategy.

Leadership as an Enabler of Innovation Climate and Innovative Work Behavior in Indonesia’s Public Libraries

ABSTRACT Organizations play an important role in the continuity of a good work environment. This study aims to determine the types of leadership influence the innovative behavior of librarians in public libraries and innovation climate influences the innovative behavior of librarians in public libraries. This study using qualitative methods and was conducted in several public libraries in Indonesia. The respondents are the librarian in Malang City public Library, Gunung Kidul public Library, and Yogyakarta Special Region public Library. The research found that transformational leadership impact to librarian innovative behavior and innovation climate in Indonesia's public library.

Innovation Culture in French Organisations

The aim of this study was to measure the relative impact of culture and processes on innovation performance. Contrary to processes, culture represents all implicit factors influencing daily behaviour. Culture gathers the unwritten rules of the social game and serves as social cement for an organisation. Processes correspond to identified and formalised practices and rules, including having a dedicated team or qualified collaborators for running product design and development, for example. Based on the scientific literature, we designed a survey to assess these three sides of innovation (culture, processes and performance). We analysed the answers of 432 French innovation managers in order to identify the predictors of Innovation performance. The whole model appears highly explanatory and shows that innovation culture holds a predictive power nearly four times as high as innovation processes. In particular, eagerness for radical change, which is not so common in French organizations, is the strongest predictor of innovation performance. Collective discovery skills and innovation climate were also good predictors of innovation performance, whereas risk aversion and tradition appear as marginal negative predictors. . These results are original because practitioners and researchers mainly produce guidelines focused on innovation processes, methods and tools as if they were the only drivers of innovation. However, the major challenge for stimulating innovation could be to understand the organization’s culture and design processes that will be both congruent to the existing culture and likely to initiate a first step to cultural change, which remains long and uncertain.

Impacts of ethical leadership, innovative climate on project success: the role of innovative behavior and time pressure

PurposeThis study aims to explore how ethical leadership and innovative climate impact project success through employees innovative behavior. In addition, based on the conservation of resources theory, this study also examines whether time pressure moderates the innovative work behavior and project success nexus.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 403 employees working in Vietnam's information technology (IT) companies. The partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to investigate the impact of ethical leadership and innovative climate on project success, the mediating effect of innovative behavior and the moderating role of time pressure.FindingsEmpirical findings indicate that ethical leadership and innovative climate positively impact on project success. Moreover, employees' innovative behavior has a complementary effect on these relationships. In addition, time pressure moderates the nexus between innovative work behavior and project success.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that IT companies can promote innovative work behavior among employees by building ethical leadership and enhancing an innovative climate. Moreover, when designing and implementing a project, project managers should take care to allow enough time for innovative behavior within the team.Originality/valueThis inquiry is probably the first attempt to explore the mechanism linking ethical leadership and innovative climate to project success, with the mediating role of employees' innovative behavior. Additionally, time pressure is an increasingly relevant factor in contemporary business, but so far little explored in research. This study extends the current knowledge by considering the moderating role of time pressure in the innovative behavior and project success nexus.

How Does Transformational Leadership and Innovation Climate as an Antecedent of Employee Creativity in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

<p>Penelitian ini memanfaatkan iklim organisasi sebagai variabel mediasi untuk menguji dampak gaya kepemimpinan transformasional terhadap kreativitas karyawan di masa pandemi COVID-19. Responden dalam penelitian ini adalah para pekerja startup. Sampel terdiri dari 129 responden. Menggunakan perangkat lunak AMOS, pendekatan Structural Equation Sampling (SEM) digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Kepemimpinan transformasional berpengaruh baik terhadap kreativitas karyawan, kepemimpinan transformasional berpengaruh positif terhadap lingkungan penemuan, dan suasana inovasi berpengaruh positif terhadap kreativitas karyawan, menurut hasil penelitian ini., melalui suasana inovatif, transformasional kepemimpinan memiliki pengaruh yang menguntungkan pada kreativitas karyawan. Penelitian ini menegaskan bagaimana kepemimpinan transformasional dan suasana inovasi berfungsi sebagai pendahulu kreativitas karyawan. Konsekuensi dari penelitian ini adalah perusahaan pemula harus menumbuhkan kepemimpinan transformasional di antara para pekerjanya dan menumbuhkan lingkungan yang ramah inovasi sehingga kreativitas karyawan dapat ditingkatkan sesekali.</p>

Effect of Creative Self-Efficacy on Creativity among College Students: The Moderating Effect of College Innovation Climate

Creativity is one of the five core competencies in the twenty-first century, and increasing attention has been paid to creativity development among students worldwide. Higher education institutions play a vital role in fostering creativity among university students. The present study examines the effect of creative self-efficacy and the college innovation climate on creativity of university students through the lens of social cognitive theory. A total of 573 questionnaires were collected from students at five universities in Hebei, China; the resulting data were analyzed through hierarchical regression analysis. The results confirmed that creative self-efficacy has a significant effect and that college innovation climate has a significant positive effect on university students’ creativity. Furthermore, the study revealed the moderating effect of the college innovation climate on the relation between creative self-efficacy and creativity. These findings offer theoretical and practical insights for enhancing creativity among university students.

Examining the Impact of Intra-group or Inter-group Social Capital on Innovative Climate in Enterprises of the Innovation Sector

One of the significant factors that have an impact on the level of innovativeness is that of the intra-group social capital and inter-group social capital. Both of these types of social capital support the innovative climate and may constitute a key attribute in creating new knowledge and innovation, which in turn increases the opportunities of enterprises in terms of market competition. The acceptance of the assumption that social capital has an impact on the creation of the innovative climate in enterprises facilitated the formulation of the research aim, which was to search for answers to the following three research questions: What is the scope of occurrence of the intra-group and inter-group of social capital in enterprises in the innovative sector in Poland? To what extent does the intra-group and inter-group of social capital have an impact on the processes that are favourable to creating knowledge and innovation in enterprises? To what extent does the intra-group and inter-group of social capital have an impact on the creating the innovative climate in enterprises? The assumed goal was executed thanks to the application of the survey method. Empirical research, together with the use of a standardized questionnaire was conducted by means of the CATI technique in 2022. A total of 575 department heads and employees of the innovative sector participated in the research. As a result of the research, significant statistical relations were discovered between the intra-group and inter-group of social capital and the indicators of the innovative climate. Likewise, the positive impact of their attributes on the intra-organizational processes was illustrated, which are favourable towards the creation of knowledge and innovation.

Features of small business development in the context of the concept of inclusive growth of the economy

In recent years, in response to global challenges and needs, economic research has shifted towards the study of inclusive economics. This approach seeks to ensure a level playing field for all market participants. It involves the active participation of small and medium-sized enterprises in inclusive growth, supporting creating a favorable business environment. Developing small and medium-sized businesses is considered the primary tool for implementing inclusive principles and encouraging economic activity and innovation in all population segments. Thus, the research aims to solve a complex of problems related to strengthening the economic and social security of the country through the activation of inclusive economic processes. The article aims to study modern processes of small business development in the context of the concept of inclusive growth of the economy and to determine directions and approaches to inclusive growth. It has been established that expanding the opportunities of small and medium-sized enterprises becomes the main element for achieving sustainable economic growth. The need to develop effective mechanisms for supporting and stimulating small and medium-sized businesses to create an inclusive economy, which will contribute to reducing social inequality, increasing employment, and improving the population's standard of living, is substantiated. Special attention is paid in the study to the analysis of barriers that prevent the development of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship. Recommendations are offered to form a favorable investment and innovation climate for expanding the opportunities of small and medium-sized enterprises. Measures have been identified that will contribute to the harmonious combination of economic progress, social justice, and effective use of natural resources, which allows small and medium-sized enterprises to ensure balanced growth, taking into account the needs of all segments of the population and ensuring the interests of various social groups within the innovative growth of the economy. Keywords: economic inequality, economic growth, inclusive economy, concept of inclusive development, small and medium enterprises.

Legal dimensions of innovative development management functions

Using dialectical, systemic, logical and historical methods of scientific knowledge, the main purpose of the article was to study the features of the state legal regulation of the innovation development management system. The subject of the research is the system of innovative development. The sphere of innovation at the present stage acts as a highly organized type of activity that requires the reciprocal influence of the state. The experience of developed countries shows that the existence of a market economy is not a sufficient condition for technological growth. It is concluded that consistent state regulatory measures are needed to create a favorable innovation climate to help develop the country’s scientific and technical potential. As a result of the study, a number of key aspects of state legal regulation of the innovation development management system were identified.

Impact of the mediated role of employee morale on innovative work behavior in context of healthcare sector; Pakistan

This study aimed to investigate the impact of various factors on employee morale and well-being in an organization. A survey was conducted among 294 employees from different health care organizations, and statistical analysis was performed using Sem PLS. The results showed that task complexity, innovative climate, and social cohesion had a significant positive impact on employee morale and well-being, while job stress had a negative impact. Perceived fairness also played a significant role in enhancing employee morale and well-being in context of healthcare sector. Mediator variables, such as innovative work behavior and task complexity, positively impacted the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The study has important implications for policy and theory, highlighting the significance of task innovation, social cohesion, and perceived fairness for improving employee morale and well-being. In our research, limitations include the lack of exposure to the healthcare workplace among some participants and the inability to control employee turnover and training effects. Future research could explore the impact of technology on employee morale and well-being in organizations.

Exploring Climate for Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry in an Emerging Market Context

Exploring Climate for Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry in an Emerging Market Context

The Impact of Organizational Innovation Climate on Sustainable Competitive Advantage- Empirical Study

The problem of the research is that some companies lack the mechanisms and policies that to enhance the loyalty of these valuable resources, which led to difficulties in generating knowledge, producing, storing, investing and investing information to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. In addition, companies are still working with the traditional wage system (monthly salaries), which makes people not think about adding value to work. The research aims to determine the level of variables for researchers to clarify the impact of the organizational innovation climate on sustainable competitive advantage. The Qualitative approach is used based on research. The research was applied in Internet Companies (Earth Link, Al-Hayat, Al-Jazeera, Hala Al-Rafidain, Orient, Sobriel, and Dish Net) in the city of Baghdad. A sample of (167) individuals in the aforementioned companies was chosen, relying on the methodology of this research, which is the survey methodology that relies on analyzing the questionnaire based on theoretical hypotheses that have been proven through practical tests and comparing the results between them.
 The research finds that dimensions are available regarding the climate of organizational innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. The results show that there is an impact of the organizational innovation climate on the sustainable competitive advantage
 Paper type: Research paper
 

Can the Organizational Innovation Climate Certainly Encourage Employees to Seek Knowledge?

Can the Organizational Innovation Climate Certainly Encourage Employees to Seek Knowledge?

Investing in green intellectual capital to enhance green corporate image under the Influence of green innovation climate: A Case of Chinese Entrepreneurial SMEs

Modern firms have been urged to play their role toward a sustainable business environment. The relevance of green prospects in the work environment continues to expand. Still, little research has been conducted to understand the role of green intellectual capital plays in promoting environmental behaviours and outcomes. With China's higher level of carbon emission, it has become imperative for businesses to investigate ways to improve their environmental performance. For this purpose, we collected the data from 451 entrepreneurial small and medium-sized enterprises based in Jiangsu province of China and then analyzed it through partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Based on the social cognitive theory assumptions, this research study argues that; green intellectual capital, measured with green human resource, relation capital, and structural capital, positively influences green core competence. And, Green core competence positively impacts the green corporate image (environmental performance and green innovation practices). Additionally, Green core competence was found to mediate the relationship between green intellectual capital and green corporate image. Lastly, the study's outcome delineated that innovative green climate moderates the relationship between green core competence and green corporate image. This study broadens the scope of social cognitive theory and presents a viable solution for entrepreneurial small and medium-sized enterprises stakeholders to use the knowledge generated by green intellectual capital and core competence to improve their green corporate image.

Green transformational leadership and green innovation in megaprojects: is green knowledge sharing a missing link?

PurposeGreen innovation (GI) in megaprojects has become a significant research topic that attracts both megaproject management scholars' and practitioners' attention. Green transformational leadership (GTL) is acknowledged as an important antecedent to GI in the permanent context. However, limited research investigates the mechanism and condition of how GTL effectively affects GI in the temporary (i.e. megaproject) context. This study seeks to examine the mechanism and condition of GTL in improving GI by assessing the mediating role of green knowledge sharing (GKS) and the moderating effect of innovation climate (IC).Design/methodology/approachRegression analysis was performed on data obtained from 303 experts who have been involved in megaprojects.FindingsGTL has a significant positive impact on two aspects of GI, including green product innovation (GPDI) and green process innovation (GPCI). Besides, GKS mediates the relationship between GTL and the two aspects of GI. Moreover, IC plays a significantly positive moderating role in the relationship between GTL and GKS and the relationship between GKS and the two aspects of GI.Originality/valueThis study adds knowledge to the theory and practice by unveiling the “black box” between GTL and GI in the temporary (i.e. megaproject) context. First, this study extends the continuing discussion on the direct effect of GTL on GI to the temporary (i.e. megaproject) context. Second, this study facilitates the understanding of the mechanism to generate better GI performance considering the mediating role of GKS and the moderating effect of IC in the temporary (i.e. megaproject) context. The results can illuminate megaproject practitioners on generating better GI performance.

Role of early childhood educators’ demographic characteristics and perceived work environment in implementation of a preschool health promotion intervention

BackgroundResearch has indicated that the effectiveness of intervention programs is affected by how well these programs are implemented, but key gaps remain in our understanding of the factors that promote or inhibit implementation. This study examined how demographic characteristics and perceived work environment among early childhood educators were associated with implementation outcomes of the Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (DAGIS) intervention, which was conducted as a cluster randomized trial.MethodsParticipants included 101 educators from 32 intervention preschool classrooms. Data were analyzed at the classroom level, as the DAGIS intervention was delivered in preschool classrooms consisting of several educators instead of individual implementers. Linear regression was used to estimate the associations of educators’ demographic characteristics and perceived work environment with different aspects of implementation (i.e., dose delivered; dose received – exposure; dose received – satisfaction; and perceived quality, as well as a total sum score based on these four dimensions). Municipality was controlled in the adjusted models.ResultsFindings indicated that having a higher proportion of educators with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in education within the classroom was associated with higher dose received – exposure and higher total degree of implementation, and the significance of the models was unaffected by adjustment for municipality. Moreover, having a higher proportion of educators younger than 35 years within the classroom was associated with higher dose received – exposure. However, the association was non-significant when adjusted for municipality. No other educator factor (i.e., work experience in years and perceived support from coworkers, group work, and innovative climate) predicted implementation outcomes.ConclusionsHigher educational attainment and younger age among educators at the classroom level were associated with higher scores for some of the implementation outcomes. Educators’ work experience in years at the current preschool and in early childhood education, support from coworkers, group work, and innovative climate were not significantly associated with any implementation outcomes. Future research should explore ways to improve educators’ implementation of interventions aimed at promoting children’s health behaviors.