The organizational innovation climate on affecting individuals’ innovative work behavior: The roles of knowledge sharing and creative self-efficacy

Technological advancement promotes social changes and brings both opportunities and challenges to organizations. For high-tech enterprises in great demand of innovation and knowledge management, exploring what factors affect employees’ innovative work behavior becomes emergent. This study investigates the impact of organizational innovation climate on employees’ innovative work behavior, with knowledge sharing and creative self-efficacy as mediators. The structural model was tested using sample data from 307 employees of high-tech enterprises across different industries. The results demonstrated that the organizational innovation climate positively and significantly affected employees’ innovative work behavior. Moreover, knowledge sharing and creative self-efficacy played chain mediation roles between organizational innovation climate and employees’ innovative work behavior. At the end of the study, we propose practical implications for enterprises regarding organizational support, knowledge management, and incentive mechanism on individual innovation from internal and external sources.