Innovation in manufacturing SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic: How does environmental dynamism reinforce employee
Yi-Fen Huang1, Hung-Chun Lin2, Hsu-Mei Lee3
1Department of Business Administration, Dayeh University, 168 University Road, Dacun, Changhua, Taiwan, ROC.
Abstract:
In a turbulent environment such as during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, employee proactive behavior is imperative for innovation initiatives in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We ask whether and how turbulent environments motivate employees to proactively engage in innovative behavior. This study argues that employees' perceptions of environmental dynamism reinforce employee proactive innovation behavior. Using a sample comprising 262 innovative employees from 40 manufacturing SMEs in Taiwan, this study tests a moderated-mediation model in which environmental dynamism is expected to increase the indirect effect of creative self-efficacy on employee innovative behavior through knowledge acquisition. The results confirm the mediating role of knowledge acquisition and the positive moderating effect of environmental dynamism. This study sheds light on the issue of employee proactive behavior in response to changing environments.
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