Impact of minimalism on consumers’ low-carbon innovation behavior: Interactive role of quantitative behavior

Minimalism has become a new consumer trend that can guide low-carbon innovation behaviors.This study uses two experiments and one survey to explore the mechanisms underlying the relationships among minimalism,quantitative behavior,and low-carbon innovation behavior.The results show that(1)minimalism can positively influence consumers’low-carbon innovation behavior;(2)the interactive effect of minimalist and quantitative behavior on low-carbon innovation behavior is significant;and(3)meaning in life can play a significant mediating role in the relationship between minimalism and low-carbon innovation behavior.Finally,corresponding strategies for theory and management practices are proposed.

Structural Dimensions Analysis of Service Employees' Innovation Behavior Based on Structural Equation Model

In order to know about the essence of service employees' innovation behavior, the service employees' innovation behavior scale based on their unique characteristics is designed. Data were collected from high-star hospitalities. Through the issuance and the collection of questionnaires, the scale is verified to have good reliability and validity by SPSS software analysis. Meanwhile,the structural equation model( SEM) is suited for testing structural dimensions of service employees' innovation behavior. The results showed that service employees' innovation behavior could be decomposed into a four-dimensional structure,namely innovation orientation, ideas generation, innovation implementation and innovation practice. In addition,there are significant differences in service employees' innovation behavior about subjects' gender,position,education background and years of working.

Corporate innovation behavior and internal governance mechanism

Innovation is a process results in new products, methods of production and forms of business organization. Innovation can vastly improve the welfare of consumers, investors, firms and the economy. However, there is relatively limited evidence of how corporate governance affects corporate innovation. In this study, the author theoretically demonstrates how internal governance mechanisms interact to affect innovation, such as internal control, monitoring and compensation contracts. Governance mechanisms are determined by firm characteristics. The ＂best＂ governance structures that can be adopted universally do not exist. However, innovative firms often share similar characteristics, and they adopt similar governance mechanisms to facilitate innovation. The ultimate purpose of such internal governance mechanism that facilitates innovation is to prevent managers＇ myopia, and this paper concludes 5 different roles in internal governance mechanism that facilitate corporate innovation behavior.

Investigating the Effect of External Alliances on Innovation Behavior in the European Union Industrial Sector

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of collaboration with suppliers and lead users in new product development (NPD) on innovation behavior. Such collaborations are regarded as advanced forms of external alliances. Survey data from two hundred and fifty-two manufacturing companies were collected from the European Union. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that both suppliers’ and lead users’ collaboration in NPD significantly affected innovation behavior. Lead users’ collaboration showed higher impact on innovation behavior compared with suppliers’ collaboration.

Entrepreneurial Skills and Innovative Behavior as Determinants on the Entrepreneurial Performance of Business Graduate Students

This study addressed the causal association of entrepreneurial performance as predicted by entrepreneurial skills and innovative behavior.Respondents of this research comprised 205 business graduate students from colleges and universities in SOCSARGEN Region in the Philippines.In a quantitative design and through purposive sampling,survey questionnaires were adopted,validated,and utilized.The researcher used the mean and multiple regression as tools in analyzing the data.Findings revealed that business graduate students’entrepreneurial skills,innovative behavior,and entrepreneurial performance were high.This means that business graduate students possessed entrepreneurial skills,innovative behavior was evident,and a very satisfactory entrepreneurial performance.On the individual capacity,entrepreneurial skills did not significantly influence business performance while innovative behavior significantly influenced entrepreneurial performance.

Fostering firm innovativeness:Understanding the sequential relationships between human resource practices,psychological empowerment,innovative work behavior,and firm innovative capability

This study investigated the relationships between human resource(HR)practices,employee psychological empowerment,employee innovative work behavior,and firm innovation capability in the context of the Information and Communication Technology(ICT)sector in Jordan.Employing the Social Exchange Theory(SET)as a guiding framework,this study explored how employee psychological empowerment and innovative work behavior mediated the influence of HR practices on a firm’s innovative capabilities.Drawing on extensive data collected from ICT organizations in Jordan,our analysis had several key findings.A significant positive correlation between HR practices and psychological empowerment was observed.Job design emerged as the most influential factor affecting psychological empowerment,whereas compensation had a weaker impact.Furthermore,we established that psychological empowerment significantly enhanced innovative work behavior,underscoring its role as a catalyst for innovative work behavior within the sector.Finally,our study supported the theory that psychological empowerment influenced a firms’innovation capabilities,emphasizing the pivotal role of employee empowerment in driving firm-level innovation in the Jordanian ICT sector.These findings provide insights for academic and practical audiences,clarifying how HR practices,employee psychological empowerment,and innovative work behavior collectively influenced firm innovation capability within the unique context of the Jordanian ICT sector.

Evolution of innovative behaviors on scale-free networks

Innovation, which involves technological transformation and management reorganization, brings about significant changes in modern society. In this paper, to investigate how innovations can be promoted, we propose a game-based model to study the co-evolutionary dynamics of human innovative behaviors. A simulation on scale-free networks is conducted, in which the innovative behavior of each node is determined and updated based on the feedback regarding its innovation, namely the diffusion of the innovation status. Numerical simulations of the model generate a series of patterns, which is consistent with people＇s daily experiences and perceptions as regards real-world innovative behaviors. Specifically, various scaling spatiotemporal properties and rich structural impacts on dynamics can be observed. This model provides a novel approach to understand the evolution of innovative behaviors and provides insight for strategy studies of innovation promotion.

Followers＇ Innovative Behavior in Organizations： The Role of Transformational Leadership, Psychological Capital and Knowledge Sharing

This study develops and tests a conceptual model of followers＇ perceptions of transformational leadership as an antecedent to their innovative behavior in organizations. Specifically, we hypothesize that followers＇ innovative behavior can be directly and indirectly influenced by their perceptions of transformational leadership. Knowledge sharing has a mediating effect and followers＇ psychological capital has a moderating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and followers＇ innovative behavior. A total of 212 employees from a diverse range of industries filled out questionnaires. Hierarchical linear modeling is used to analyze the relations. Results reveal that transformational leadership produces positive and significant impacts on followers＇ innovative behavior and this relationship is fully mediated by knowledge sharing. Results also indicate that the positive relationship between transformational leadership and followers＇ innovative behavior is enhanced only when followers possess high psychological capital. This paper adds to innovation literature by empirically testing the moderating role of psychological capital and the mediating role of knowledge sharing on the link between transformational leadership and followers＇ innovative behavior. Implications of the findings for theory, research, and practice are discussed.

Directors and Officers Liability Insurance and High-Quality Development of Enterprises:From the Perspective of Agency Cost and Innovation Incentive

High-quality economic development can be achieved if a major strategic direction for China are delivered from the macro level to the micro level.Taking A-listed enterprises in China from 2005 to 2018 as samples,this paper studies the impact of directors and officers liability insurance(D&O insurance)on the high-quality enterprise development.The research results show that D&O insurance can promote high-quality development.In addition,the mechanism test shows that D&O insurance can reduce agency costs and improve innovations and high-quality enterprise development.Further analysis shows that when state-owned enterprises including their internal controls has no major defects,D&O insurance has more significant positive impact.Thus,this paper suggests that the insurance should be promoted for realizing high-quality enterprise development.

Innovative behavior and the Chinese enterprise survival risk:An empirical study

The Chinese firms face enormous survival risk duing economic transition,with an average life expectancy of less than 4 years.From the perspective of enterprises’innovative activities,this paper conducts dynamic tracks on the survival situation of those enterprises entering the market after 2000.By employing propensity score matching and Cox model to overcome the difficulties such as sample bias and censoring of data with long duration,the inhibitory effect of innovative activities on enterprises’survival risk has been captured and investigated in both static and dynamic dimensions.The findings are as follows.First,compared with the non-innovative enterprises,the innovative enterprises own higher competence of risk resistance,as innovative activities can release about 12% survival risk for enterprises and extend their survival time by 0.84 year.Second,the influence of innovative intensity on the enterprises’survival probability presents the characteristics of being non-stationary rather than proportional,which means the stronger innovative intensity will not necessarily bring more obvious inhibition effect.Third,the characteristics of being different within enterprises will change the effect of innovation activity on inhibiting survival risk.The survival incremental effect of large-scale enterprises with high productivity through innovative activities is more apparent,as innovative activities help to relieve the agglomeration of survival risk from those long-established enterprises.But those enterprises with financing limit are not suitable for innovative activities.Then,it must be one of the main priorities for China’s government in formulating current and future policies about industrial organization to encourage enterprise independent innovation through a series of measures.