Innovative Atmosphere Research Articles

Following the Innovations in A Learning Organization Perspective: To Follow, or Not to Follow

The purpose of this study was to investigate school administrators and teachers’ following innovations in pre-school education in terms of the learning organization perspective. We examined their following the innovations in terms of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competencies, 21st Century Skills, and Innovative School. A total of 207 participants (School Administrators N =33 & Teachers N = 174) were recruited in this research. The data collections tools were Information and Communication Technology Competency Scale (ICTC), Multidimensional 21st Century Skills Scale, and Innovative School Scale (ISS). Our results have shown that school administrators and teachers have positive attitudes towards following innovations in education. Participants, however, have some concerns over innovative atmosphere and organizational impediments in terms of the innovative school. Further, the results in innovative school showed a statistically significant difference in favor of male participants. The results of the regression analysis have revealed that there is a significant relationship between multidimensional 21st century skills and the innovative school variables at a high level. Although the participants' multidimensional 21st century skills significantly predicted their innovative school scores, we found that the ICT Competence variable alone did not predict or affect it. Limitations and recommendations for future research are provided, as well.

Robots in Public Libraries: An Empirical Analysis of Current Applications and Future Opportunities

ABSTRACT The paper investigated the current application of robots in public libraries with specific consideration of its future opportunities. Three (3) objectives guided the conduct of the study. The study employed a qualitative research approach. The population for the study comprised librarians who have been certified by the Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) and worked at public library boards. Thematic analysis and content analysis techniques were adopted for this study. The study found that robots bring various advantages, including increased operational efficiency and streamlined access to information, as well as interactive educational opportunities and heightened user involvement. The findings indicate that embracing robotic technology enables public libraries to establish more accessible, dynamic, and user-focused environments, fostering an atmosphere of innovation and technological progress within the realm of information services. It could be concluded that the integration of robots in public libraries plays a vital role in modernizing and improving library services to meet the evolving demands of library users and communities. However, library stakeholders must address potential obstacles, including financial limitations, technological preparedness, and user acceptance. Prioritizing the training of staff, fostering community involvement, and establishing clear policy frameworks enables public libraries to effectively navigate the challenges related to incorporating robotics, ensuring a smooth transition toward a technologically advanced and user-focused library environment.

College English Education and the Cultivation of College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability

This paper focuses on the relationship between college English education and the cultivation of college students innovation and entrepreneurship ability, analyzes the problems and difficulties faced by college students in the process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and puts forward the corresponding solution strategies. College English education has unique advantages in cultivating students innovative and critical thinking ability, broadening their international vision and enhancing cross-cultural communication ability, and plays an important guiding role in promoting the innovation and entrepreneurship of college students. At the same time, this paper also emphasizes the positive role that colleges and universities should play in innovation and entrepreneurship education, including reforming the curriculum system, strengthening the construction of teaching staff, and creating an atmosphere for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Exploring the Path of Digital Intelligence Innovation and Productivity Enhancement in the Greater Bay Area from a Multidimensional Perspective

“New quality productivity” is an important term put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping in September 2023 during his visit and research in Heilongjiang. It is a form of productivity relative to traditional productivity, characterized by high technology, high energy efficiency and high quality, with science and technology innovation as the core driving force, and with a wide range of permeability and integration. To develop new quality productivity, it is inseparable from scientific and technological innovation and the development of new industries. Digital economy and intelligence are important paths to develop new quality productivity. The purpose of this paper is to explore the path and its impact of digital intelligence innovation on productivity enhancement in the Greater Bay Area from a multi-dimensional perspective. The study first starts with the policy environment, outlines the policy background of the Greater Bay Area, comprehends the formation and development of the digital economy, and analyzes in depth how policies promote digital innovation. On this basis, the paper explores the specific impact of digital intelligence innovation on productivity and its path from three perspectives: technological, social and cultural. Under the technological perspective, this paper focuses on the technology-driven mechanism of digital intelligence innovation, including its direct impact on the optimization of industrial structure and productivity enhancement, and analyzes in detail the breakthroughs in major technological fields and their role in promoting the regional economy. Through technological innovation cases, it demonstrates how digital innovation can enhance productivity at the technological level and inject new vitality into the economy of the Greater Bay Area. The social perspective focuses on how digital intelligence innovation can enhance social governance, drive social benefits and public services, and explore the role of digital intelligence innovation in promoting social inclusion and narrowing the digital divide. By analyzing the specific practices and effects at the social level, it reveals the important role of digital intelligence innovation in social development. The cultural perspective analyzes the integration of digital intelligence innovation with regional culture and explores its role in promoting the cultural industry. It demonstrates the specific practices of the integration of culture and technology through typical cases, emphasizes the importance of regional cultural identity and innovation atmosphere, and proposes how to further enhance the productivity of the Greater Bay Area through cultural innovation. In the comprehensive analysis section, this paper integrates the analysis results from various perspectives and proposes the future development trend of digital intelligence innovation and its long-term impact on productivity enhancement in the Greater Bay Area. Finally, based on the findings, this paper proposes a series of policy recommendations and optimization paths, including strengthening policy support, promoting technological research and development, and fostering social inclusiveness and cultural innovation, with a view to providing scientific references and practical guidance for the future development of the digital intelligence economy in the Greater Bay Area.

Can non-subsidised policies for new energy vehicles improve the quality of enterprise innovation? evidence from China

ABSTRACT Through an investigation of listed new energy vehicle (NEV) enterprises in China from 2012 to 2021, we examined the impact of three NEV non-subsidised policies on enterprise innovation quality from both production and market ends, using the PVAR model. Our study yielded several key findings. First, non-subsidised policies have an overall positive effect, with the production-market-end policy represented by the dual-credit performing the best, followed by the single production-end policy (access catalog), and the market-end policy (government procurement) having the lowest impact. This difference is more pronounced in the two-stage sample (subsidy era, 2012-2016; post-subsidy era, 2017-2021). Second, the analysis of policy mechanisms shows that non-subsidised policies have an R&D investment effect and a product scale effect, but each emphasises specific policy-innovation paths. Third, the market competition pressure has a positive moderating effect on the impact of the dual-credit and access catalog policies, while the moderating effect on government procurement is not significant. Moreover, the external regional innovation atmosphere also has a heterogeneous impact on the incentive effect of non-subsidised policies. These results have important implications for adjusting NEV industry policy in the post-subsidy era and for the discussion of the relationship between non-subsidised policies and technological innovation.

Differences in the innovation effectiveness of China's new energy vehicle industry policies: A comparison of subsidized and non-subsidized policies

The adjustment of China's new energy vehicle (NEV) industry policies and innovation incentives is currently in progress. This study takes a new perspective by comparing subsidized and non-subsidized policies, and empirically examines their innovation effects on NEV enterprises using the innovation value chain theory. The results indicate that in the previous technology development stage, the subsidized policy exhibits a relatively stronger but volatile impact on incremental innovation, whereas the non-subsidized policy demonstrates a more stable effect on radical innovation. In the latter innovation value realization stage, both policies show a better impact on the short-term innovation value (output value) of NEV enterprises compared to the long-term value (market value). The mediation effect and threshold effect tests show that there is a significant mediating effect of technology development behavior of NEV enterprises in the whole value chain, although the specific mediating pathways and threshold effects are inconsistent, and overall innovation transmission efficiency is insufficient. Moreover, considering the internal ownership of NEV enterprises and external regional innovation atmosphere characteristics, the effects of the two policies also have their own distinct emphases. This study provides new insights for addressing issues related to innovation incentives and policy decisions for NEVs in the post-subsidy era.

A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION CLIMATE AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY ON EMPLOYEE INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE LIVE STREAMING E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY

With the rapid development of the digital economy, live streaming e-commerce has become a new format and trend in e-commerce. However, the live streaming e-commerce industry is becoming more homogeneous, and companies urgently need to enhance their competitiveness through employee innovation. This article aims to explore the factors that influence the innovative behavior of employees in live-streaming e-commerce companies and provide a theoretical basis and practical guidance for companies to implement innovation-driven development strategies. Based on social identity theory and motivation theory, this study constructed a research model on "the impact of live broadcast e-commerce organizational innovation atmosphere and professional identity on employee innovative behavior". Sample data were collected through questionnaires, and statistical analysis methods were used to test the research hypotheses. The research found that: 1) organizational innovation climate positively affects employee innovative behavior, and work motivation plays a partial mediating role between the two; 2) professional identity positively affects employee innovative behavior, and organizational identification plays a partial mediating role between the two; and 3) employees with different personal characteristics have significant differences in their innovative behaviors.

Designing a Constructive Leadership Implementation Model in the Higher Education System Using an Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) Approach

The present study designed a model for the implementation of constructive leadership in the higher education system using an interpretive structural modeling approach. This study was applied in terms of aim and qualitative type of descriptive in terms of method of implementation. The statistical population of the study included experts in educational and constructive leadership in higher education at Urmia University. Based on the principle of random sampling, 7 of them were selected as a sample using convenience and snowball sampling methods. A semi-structured interview with experts whose questions were designed based on the theoretical foundations of constructive leadership in higher education with the help of professors was used as the study tool. The validity of the results was examined and confirmed by the triangulation method. Also, its face validity was confirmed by the opinions of experts who were not members of the study, and its reliability was calculated at 0.83 using the inter-coder coefficient of the agreement method. The data obtained from semi-structured interviews were analyzed with open, axial, and selective coding based on grounded theory in MAXQDA software. The results showed that the model of constructive leadership in higher education based on grounded theory included 12 components and 9 dimensions. The category of causal conditions included two dimensions of the necessity of constructive management (with two components of knowledge management and organizational innovation) and organizational culture (with two components of collaborative management and innovative atmosphere). The category of contextual conditions included two dimensions of management maturity (with the component of evaluating and applying policies for constructive management) and the system of fostering change and transformation (with the component of establishing relationships with aligned people and organizations). The category of intervening conditions included the dimension of competition with the surrounding environment and increasing progress (with the component of planning and paying attention to facilities). The category of strategies included two dimensions having facilities and requirements (with the component of financing and equipment) and responsibility and cooperation (with the components of empathy and public desire). Finally, the category of implications included two dimensions of academic development (with 2 components of individual competence development and university development) and social development (with the component of gaining public trust).

Evaluation of the Effect of Competition to Promote Innovation: The Impact of Failure of Entrepreneurship Competition on The Entrepreneurial Intention of Finance and Economics College Students

Activating college students' entrepreneurial intentions through entrepreneurial competitions is an important means of cultivating innovative talents, but few studies have explored how the failure of entrepreneurial competitions affects entrepreneurial intentions. A questionnaire survey was used to investigate the entrepreneurial intentions of 596 finance and economics college students and found that: ①After the failure of the entrepreneurial competition, the enthusiasm of the competition, the school's innovative atmosphere, and entrepreneurial ability stimulate the entrepreneurial intentions of college students; ②Fear of failure and the number of failures inhibit the entrepreneurial intentions of college students; ③Competition passion and school innovation atmosphere can alleviate the inhibitory effect of fear of failure on college students' entrepreneurial intention. In addition, the number of entries and the level of participation effort have no effect on the entrepreneurial intention of college students, but the level of participation effort improves the entrepreneurial ability of college students. The research conclusions inspire colleges and universities to strengthen the high-quality promotion of entrepreneurship competitions, improve the effect of "promoting innovation through competition", pay attention to the negative impact of failure of entrepreneurship competitions on students, create a good innovation atmosphere, enhance students' enthusiasm for participating in competitions, and explore the innovation and entrepreneurship education training of financial and economic college students new mode.

Research on the mechanism of enhancing digital innovation capability of strategic emerging enterprises-taking Haining manufacturing enterprises as an example

In the context of the digital economy era, digital transformation has become a key driving force for the development of strategic emerging enterprises. The enhancement of digital innovation ability is especially important for strategic emerging industries, which can not only improve the market competitiveness of enterprises, but also promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure. After investigation and analysis, strategic emerging industries face the challenges of imperfect management and organization system within enterprises, weak government support, and insufficient innovation atmosphere in the social environment on the road to digitalization, and the enhancement of their digital innovation capability often requires the synergy of internal enterprise mechanism and external support. To address the above issues, this study takes manufacturing enterprises in Haining City, Zhejiang Province, as the object of research, and investigates the mechanism of enhancing the digital innovation capability of strategic emerging enterprises from three levels: the enterprise level, the government level, and the social environment level. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for understanding how strategic emerging enterprises can enhance their competitiveness through digital means, and how governments can formulate effective policies to support enterprises' digital innovation.

The Influence of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility Factors on the Innovation Climate of Employees in the Healthcare Industry

This study examined the relationship between employee innovation and employee-initiated corporate social responsibility (CSR) elements in medical diagnostic enterprises in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research identified nine variables of employee-driven CSR, including communication, empowerment, and work satisfaction. Theoretical framework of the study based on theory of corporate social responsibility and expectancy theory of motivation. It evaluated their effects on the atmosphere for employee innovation using statistical analysis by using SPSS and after collecting data by using a survey questionnaire. The study population was employees working in the healthcare industry in Pakistan. The findings showed that employee-driven CSR and innovation were significantly correlated, with work satisfaction having the most impact. Overall, this quantitative study provides important insights for both theoretical understanding and practical application in fostering innovation through CSR initiatives. It emphasizes the critical role of job satisfaction as a key motivating factor for innovation within the framework of employee-driven CSR in the medical diagnostics sector.

The relationship between servant leadership and team innovation performance: Mediating effect of self-efficacy

This study delves into the effects of servant leadership on team innovation performance by examining innovation self-efficacy as a mediating factor and team innovation atmosphere as a moderating factor. Utilizing a questionnaire survey of 311 hotel employees, we employed a structural equation model for rigorous data analysis. Our key findings are summarized as follows: (1) Servant leadership positively influences team innovation performance. Specifically, the dimensions of persuasion and guidance within servant leadership emerge as significant predictors of enhanced team innovation. (2) Servant leadership significantly boosts innovation self-efficacy, highlighting its crucial role in fostering a culture of innovation. (3) Innovation self-efficacy emerges as a pivotal mediator between servant leadership and team innovation performance, underscoring its importance in translating leadership behaviours into tangible innovation outcomes. (4) The team innovation atmosphere positively moderates the relationship between innovation self-efficacy and team innovation performance, indicating that a supportive environment can amplify the impact of individuals’ self-beliefs on collective innovation. This research offers valuable theoretical and practical insights into harnessing the power of servant leadership to enhance innovation self-efficacy and, ultimately, team innovation performance. Our findings contribute to a richer understanding of how these variables interact and can inform the development of more effective leadership strategies in organizations seeking to foster a culture of innovation.

The impact of servant leadership on team innovative performance: Mediating role of employee innovative behavior

This study is aimed at exploring the impacts of servant leadership on team innovation performance, examining the role of employee innovative behavior as a mediator and team innovation atmosphere as a moderator. By conducting a questionnaire survey involving 647 employees from the hotel industry and utilizing structural equation modelling for data analysis. Additionally, the study shows that servant leadership significantly improves employees' innovative behavior, which in turn acts as a mediator between servant leadership and team innovation performance. The team innovation climate was identified as a positive moderator reinforcing the link between service-oriented leadership and employee innovation behavior, as well as employee innovation behavior and team innovation performance. This study provides an incisive view of the beneficial impact of service-oriented leadership on team innovation performance, emphasizing the mediating and moderating role played by employee innovation behaviour and team innovation atmosphere. Based on hotel management, the pursuit of timely and effective responses within an intensely competitive market environment is critical to safeguarding the hotel's competitive standing. To address this challenge, the study offers the following recommendations: the foremost emphasis should be on bolstering employees' innovation capabilities. Second, hotel managers are advised to meticulously select, train, and cultivate leaders with a strong service orientation. Thirdly, enterprise leaders should continually elevate their personal knowledge to provide superior guidance to subordinates.

RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEES’ SOCIAL MEDIA USE ON AMBIDEXTROUS INNOVATION

With the rapid development of social media, employees' use of social media in the workplace has a significant impact on communication, interaction, and information sharing among employees and between employees and organizations. Therefore, this study selects employees as the research object, based on UGT and ambidextrous innovation theory, comprehensively considers the different use purposes of social media, and explores the influence mechanism of social media use on ambidextrous innovation from the level of employees. The understanding of the boundary conditions of employee social media use for ambidextrous innovation has deepened. By combing existing literature, designing questionnaires, collecting data, and using a variety of data analysis tools for correlation analysis, this study draws the following main conclusions: employees' use of social media and its three dimensions all have a significant positive impact on ambidextrous innovation; innovative atmosphere plays a positive moderating role in the impact of employees' social media use on ambidextrous innovation. This study verifies the positive impact of employees' use of social media and its different dimensions on ambidextrous innovation, reveals the specific effects of social media use within enterprises, and improves the research framework for social media application within enterprises.

Regional innovation ecosystem and local firms’ outward foreign direct investment: an empirical study based on symbiosis perspective

ABSTRACT ‘Ecological symbiosis’ depicts the phenomena of dynamics, interconnection and coevolution of participants within an ecosystem. The concept has been widely applied in recent years to describe the theory framework of ‘Regional Innovation Ecosystem’ (RIE). This study has two goals. The first is to clarify the formation of ‘Regional Innovation Ecosystem’ (RIE) from an ‘ecological symbiosis’ perspective. The second is to explore the impact of RIE on ‘Outward Foreign Direct Investment’ (OFDI) in emerging economies. We construct an evaluation system for RIE based on a dataset of Chinese cities from 2009 to 2019 and calculate the symbiosis index of RIE using the entropy method. Our finds identify the determinants in the formation of RIE and depict the spatial heterogeneity characteristics of Chinese RIEs. Empirical evidence indicates that RIE symbiosis significantly promotes OFDI by local firms, especially technology-seeking OFDI. Implications of innovation policy and strategic management are discussed, such as high-tech zone construction, technological innovation atmosphere, government-industry-university collaborative innovation strategy and strategic overseas investment layout.

Exploring the Nexus of Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation Capability, and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Rural Commercial Banks in China

This study investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on innovation capability and organizational performance in China's rural commercial banks. Utilizing a robust evaluation index system, the research quantitatively assesses CSR and its dimensions: economic, legal, moral, and charitable responsibilities. Findings indicate that CSR positively influences organizational performance and innovation capability. Moreover, innovation capability significantly enhances organizational performance and partially mediates the relationship between CSR and organizational performance. The research also highlights the moderating role of an organizational innovation atmosphere, where colleague support, supervisor support, and organizational support strengthen the relationship between innovation capability and organizational performance. These insights underscore the critical role of CSR in driving innovation and organizational success in the rural banking sector. Further research is recommended to explore additional mediating mechanisms and broaden the sample scope for more comprehensive results.

Research on the Influence of Undergraduates’ Perceived Servant Leadership in China: The Effect of Innovative Atmosphere and Innovative Self-Efficacy

This study explores the influence mechanism of perceived servant leadership on innovative behavior among college students in Hebei Province, China, and the chain-mediating role of innovative atmosphere and innovative self-efficacy. This study adopts the questionnaire survey method and the convenience sampling method, and 478 college students are collected. The results show that the perception of servant leadership by college students in Hebei Province in China significantly positively affects innovative behavior; The innovative atmosphere and innovative self-efficacy mediate between college students' perceived servant leadership and innovative behavior.

Impact of FDI and foreign trade openness on carbon emissions in China: evidence from threshold regression model

ABSTRACT Using panel data of 20 industries in China from 2006 to 2019, this paper constructs a fixed effect model to study the impact of FDI (foreign direct investment) and foreign trade on China’s industrial carbon emissions. We combine the panel threshold model to explore the impact mechanism of FDI and foreign trade on industrial carbon emissions under the difference of independent technological innovation. Research efforts has shown that FDI and foreign trade have a long-term promoting effect on industrial carbon emissions, indicating that the ‘pollution shelter’ hypothesis is valid in the context of China’s industrial industry. The threshold regression indicates that with the increase of independent technological innovation, the increase in carbon emissions promoted by FDI while foreign trade decreases. When considering heterogeneity issues, FDI and foreign trade in moderately and heavily polluting industries significantly increase carbon emissions compared with lightly polluting industries; Compared with heavily polluting industries, moderately polluting industries have a more significant positive impact on carbon emissions from foreign trade. The research conclusion provides reference for reducing carbon emissions and improving environmental quality by emphasizing the industry structure of FDI and foreign trade, fully stimulating independent technological innovation, and creating an innovation atmosphere.

How can college teachers’ information literacy empower their innovative teaching behaviors under the background of informatization?

The innovative teaching behaviors of college teacher are of positive significance for promoting the construction of educational informatization in China and realizing the high-quality development of higher education. Based on the theory of social cognition and theory of behavioral change, the paper explores the influential mechanism and its boundary conditions of college teachers’ information literacy on their innovative teaching behaviors during the new era of educational informatization. Through the investigation of 280 college teachers, it is found that: (1) information literacy and its dimensions of information knowledge and information capability have a significant positive effect on innovative teaching behavior; (2) Creative self-efficacy plays a mediating role between information literacy (information knowledge and information capability) and innovative teaching behavior; (3) College innovation climate significantly moderates the positive relationship between information literacy (information awareness and information knowledge) and creative self-efficacy; (4) College innovation climate significantly moderates the mediating effect of creative self-efficacy between information literacy (information awareness and information knowledge) and innovative teaching behavior. Therefore, colleges and universities should focus on enhancing teachers’ information literacy level and their creative self-efficacy, creating an excellent atmosphere for innovation, and encouraging college teachers to actively carry out their innovative teaching practice in the new stage of educational informatization.

International Comparison of Teaching Innovation and School Innovation Atmosphere: Application of TALIS 2018 Results

International Comparison of Teaching Innovation and School Innovation Atmosphere: Application of TALIS 2018 Results