Creative workforce density, organizational slack, and innovation performance

Chung-Jen Chen and Yi-Fen Huang

Journal of Business Research, 2010, vol. 63, issue 4, 411-417

Abstract: This study examines the effects of creative workforce density and organizational slack on innovation performance. This article suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between creative workforce density and innovation performance and proposes two governing forces relating to this relationship. Moreover, this study suggests that different slacks vary in affecting innovation. When adding absorbed and unabsorbed slacks as moderators, the relationship between creative workforce density and innovation performance becomes strengthened or attenuated respectively. Comprehensive secondary data on 305 Taiwanese firms in IT sector support the prediction. This article also discusses the managerial implications and highlights future research directions.

Keywords: Creative; workforce; Organizational; slack; Innovation; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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