The prosocial-motivated process of meaningful innovation: evidence from Chinese start-ups in digital industry

IF 2 4区 管理学 Q3 BUSINESS
Guannan Qu, Jin Chen, Yuan Jie, Luyao Wang, Dong Guo
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Abstract

With the increasing prominence of SDGs, the prosocial issues of firms’ innovation activities are gaining more attention. Nevertheless, the micro-foundation of the prosocial innovation process remains unexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce the meaningful innovation (MI) framework in order to develop a moderated mediation model for investigating the prosocial motivated innovation process. By conducting an empirical analysis based on a three-wave survey of 24 small high-tech new ventures in China’s digital industry, we find that (1) as an essential source of external meaning, an employee’s prosocial motivation is positively related to a firm’s innovation performance; (2) employees’ creativity mediates the positive relationship between prosocial motivation and firms’ innovation performance; and (3) although intrinsic motivation does not significantly moderate the above mediation effect, it is positively related to firms’ innovation performance; employees’ creativity also mediates this relationship. This paper contributes to the literature on ‘social value and innovation’ studies by revealing a prosocial-motivated innovation process and ascertaining the micro-foundation of the meaningful innovation framework.
有意义创新的亲社会激励过程:来自中国数字产业初创企业的证据
随着可持续发展目标的日益突出,企业创新活动中的亲社会问题越来越受到关注。然而,亲社会创新过程的微观基础仍未被探索。为了填补这一空白,我们引入了有意义创新(MI)框架,以建立一个有调节的中介模型来研究亲社会动机创新过程。通过对中国数字产业中24家小型高新技术创业企业的三波调查实证分析,我们发现:(1)员工亲社会动机作为企业外部意义的重要来源,与企业创新绩效正相关;(2)员工创造力在亲社会动机与企业创新绩效之间起中介作用;(3)虽然内在动机对上述中介效应没有显著调节作用,但它与企业创新绩效正相关;员工的创造力也起到中介作用。本文通过揭示亲社会激励的创新过程和确定有意义创新框架的微观基础,对“社会价值与创新”研究的文献做出了贡献。
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CiteScore
4.40
自引率
13.80%
发文量
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期刊介绍: The growth of the Asia Pacific region and the rising presence of its multinationals in world markets has raised a number of questions about the origins of national economic success. Asia Pacific Business Review addresses these key issues and draws together the lessons of the analysis of culture, economies, history, politics and societies in the area, in order to explore business-related phenomena in the Asia Pacific countries, both in their general and specific contexts. The Review is intended for both academics and interested observers, contains the contributions of recognized experts, and is essential to anyone seeking the latest research on Asia Pacific business in a readily available, approachable form. We welcome articles which deal with nations and societies in the Asia Pacific region, namely those in East Asia and South-East Asia (but not South Asia), including those in APEC and ASEAN, individually or comparatively. Of interest also are contributions on the Asia Pacific economies, comparing those inside with those outside, or those investing in it. We do not, however, publish papers based solely on countries from outside the region.
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