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Abstract
Employee bootleg innovation behavior is the key to helping enterprises get rid of the "innovator's dilemma" and achieve innovative development. This article constructed a model of the relationship between error management climate, psychological security, risk-taking traits, and employees' bootleg innovation behaviors based on social cognitive theory and tested the model empirically. The results show that error management climate has a significant positive influence on employees' bootleg innovation behavior; psychological security plays a mediating role between error management climate and bootleg innovation behavior; and risk-taking traits play a moderating role in the relationship between psychological security and employees' bootleg innovation behavior. The results of the study provide valuable insights for guiding employees' bootleg innovation behaviors and help organizations in effectively managing these behaviors, thus enhancing organizational innovation performance.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.