An empirical investigation on organizational innovation and individual creativity

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• 作者：Jianping Peng (1)
  Guoying Zhang (2)
  Zhengping Fu (1)
  Yong Tan (3)
  
• 关键词：Employee relationship ; Knowledge sharing ; IT application maturity ; Innovation ; Creativity ; Social network ; Centrality
• 刊名：Information Systems and E-Business Management
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：August 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：12
• 期：3
• 页码：465-489
• 全文大小：1,924 KB
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• 作者单位：Jianping Peng (1)
  Guoying Zhang (2)
  Zhengping Fu (1)
  Yong Tan (3)
  
  1. Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
  2. Dillard College of Business Administration, Midwestern State University, 3410 Taft Blvd., Wichita Falls, TX, 76308, USA
  3. Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Box 353226, Seattle, WA, 98195-3226, USA
  
• ISSN：1617-9854

文摘

Innovation is one of the critical success factors for organizations. It is essential for business to understand the driving forces of innovation. This study investigates the impact of the following three factors on innovation: employee relationship, knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity. 167 samples of firm level data were collected to construct the measurements of innovation, intensity of employee relationship, employee diversity, quality of knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity. It is found that all of these factors have significant impacts on innovation. We further extend the investigation to individual creativity as a corresponding concept to organizational innovation. An employee social network was constructed at a size of 149 nodes. It is shown that the centrality of each employee in the social network has significant positive impact on individual creativity. With these results from investigating organizational innovation and individual creativity, this study empirically illustrates the importance of enhancing employee relationship, knowledge sharing, and IT application maturity.