Interactive effects of multiple organizational climates on employee innovative behavior in entrepreneurial firms: A cross-level investigation

Jae Hyeung Kang, James G. Matusik, Tae-Yeol Kim and J. Mark Phillips

Journal of Business Venturing, 2016, vol. 31, issue 6, 628-642

Abstract: Given that organizations need to manage complex situations, multiple organizational climates can coexist and these climates can jointly influence employee behaviors. However, the mechanisms through which the latter relationships operate are poorly understood. We take a multilevel approach to examine the mechanisms that link organizational innovative climate and employee innovative behavior, and the moderating effects of organizational proactive and risk-taking climates on these relationships. Using multisource data from 105 managers and 39 CEOs, we found that innovative climate was positively related to employee innovative behavior indirectly through employee passion for inventing. In addition, the relationship between innovative climate and passion for inventing became stronger as proactive climate increased, and the relationship between passion for inventing and employee innovative behavior became stronger as risk-taking climate increased. Our study contributes to entrepreneurial research by highlighting the interactive effects of multiple organizational climates on employee innovative behavior.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial organizational climate; Innovative climate; Proactive climate; Risk-taking climate; Passion for inventing; Innovative behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.08.002

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