Hey, Boss, Please Share! An Exploitative Perspective on Supervisor Idea Credit Taking and Employees’ Reactions

Dan Ni, Siyuan Chen, Shaoxue Wu, Daisy Mui Hung Kee, Zhuyan Yu, Wen Wu and Chong Chen

Journal of Business Research, 2024, vol. 185, issue C

Abstract: Bringing vital benefits or credit to ideators is the key to attracting them. The literature ignores the impact of supervisors’ allocation of idea credit on ideators. Based on the appraisal theory of emotion and the exploitation literature, we propose and validate the construct of idea credit taking. We examine how and when idea credit taking influences ideators’ reactions. The results show that idea credit taking is positively associated with exploitative perception. Exploitative perception is positively associated with anger toward the supervisor and regret toward the idea-proposing decision, which, in turn, are related to less creativity. Risk-taking attribution moderates the relationship between idea credit taking and exploitative perception.

Keywords: Idea credit taking; Exploitative perception; Attribution; Creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114936

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