Understanding New Zealand firm innovation: exploring human resource factors by firm size and strength.

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2023-03-09 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/03036758.2023.2180761

Jarrod Haar, Conor O'Kane

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Abstract

Firm innovation is of vital importance to New Zealand's economy, but we understand little about how different human resource (workforce) factors influence innovation approaches (product/services innovation, process innovation, and innovation speed). We explore three human resource (HR) factors: workforce knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), workforce attraction, and workforce retention, using a sample of New Zealand private sector firms (n = 402). Regression analysis shows all HR factors are significant predictors of all innovation approaches. Further analysis shows workforce KSAs is dominant towards product/service innovation, workforce attraction is dominant towards process innovation, and workforce retention is dominant towards innovation speed. Moderating effects by firm size are found showing small-sized firms out innovate large-sized firms when workforce KSA are high, despite small-sized firms having, on average, weaker HR factors and innovation approaches than large-sized firms. We highlight the organisational implications across small - and large-sized firms.

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理解新西兰企业创新:从企业规模和实力看人力资源因素

企业创新对新西兰经济至关重要，但我们对不同的人力资源（劳动力）因素如何影响创新方法（产品/服务创新、流程创新和创新速度）知之甚少。我们以新西兰私营企业（n = 402）为样本，探讨了三个人力资源（HR）因素：劳动力知识、技能和能力（KSAs）、劳动力吸引和劳动力保留。回归分析表明，所有人力资源因素对所有创新方法都有显著的预测作用。进一步的分析表明，劳动力 KSAs 对产品/服务创新起主导作用，劳动力吸引力对流程创新起主导作用，劳动力保留对创新速度起主导作用。企业规模的调节效应表明，当劳动力KSA较高时，尽管小型企业的人力资源因素和创新方法平均弱于大型企业，但小型企业的创新能力仍优于大型企业。我们强调了对小型企业和大型企业的组织影响。

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ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)

CiteScore

9.40

自引率

2.10%

发文量

464

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Bio Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of biomaterials and biointerfaces including and beyond the traditional biosensing, biomedical and therapeutic applications. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important bio applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses the relationship between structure and function and assesses the stability and degradation of materials under relevant environmental and biological conditions.