Innovative Resources, Promotion Focus and Responsible Innovation: The Moderating Roles of Adaptive Governance

Xia Cao, Dan Lv and Zeyu Xing
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Xia Cao: School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Dan Lv: School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Zeyu Xing: School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-19

Abstract: This paper discusses the relationship between innovative resources, promotion focus, adaptive governance and responsible innovation. In accordance with the path of “demand—motivation—behavior”, this paper takes adaptive governance as the moderator, and constructs an influence relationship model of “innovative resources—promotion focus (adaptive governance)—responsible innovation”. Then this paper takes 361 managers from above the middle management level and the technical personnel of enterprises as the investigation objects, and conducts empirical research by using the structural equation model. The results show that: (1) innovative resources have a significant positive impact on responsible innovation; (2) promotion focus partially mediates the effect of innovative resources on responsible innovation; (3) adaptive governance has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between innovative resources and responsible innovation. The results enrich the quantitative research of responsible innovation, reveal the internal mechanism of innovative resources affecting responsible innovation, provide a new way for technological innovation governance and provide a new way of thinking for the transformation from the traditional innovation paradigm into a sustainable innovation paradigm.

Keywords: innovative resources; promotion focus; adaptive governance; responsible innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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