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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2020, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (6): 182-192.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2020.06.017

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Proactive-reactive Innovation Behavior of the Employee: Based on the Mechanism of Distributed Leadership

YANG Wan-su1,2, YANG Shan-lin1,2, YANG Xi1,2   

  1. 1. The School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Process Optimization and Intelligent Decision-making (Hefei University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Hefei 230009, China
  • Received:2017-09-06 Revised:2018-04-09 Online:2020-06-20 Published:2020-06-29

Abstract: Employees’ innovation is the key driver of enterprise innovation and core competitiveness. In the context of China’s current organizational environment, there are two types of employee innovation behavior, proactive and reactive innovation behavior of the employee; and there is a huge difference of innovation performance between the two types. However, the existing literature has insufficient research on reactive innovation behavior of the employee, and the theoretical research has been unable to meet the needs of practice. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out research on two different types of employee innovation behavior under a framework to enrich the research on innovation behavior category. The emerging leadership development orientation—distributed leadership is taken as the breakthrough point; introduces organizational support as the mediated variable, supervisor-subordinate guanxi and values fit as the moderated variable; and builds the model of distributed leadership on the proactive-reactive innovation behavior of the employee. In order to verify the model, 408 knowledge workers are used as the research object, and multiple regression analysis is used for the test. The results show that: the distributed leadership has positive influence on the proactive innovation behavior of the employee, and has negative influence on the reactive innovation behavior of the employee. The organizational support is a mediating effect between distributed leadership and proactive-reactive innovation behavior of the employee. The supervisor-subordinate guanxi and values fit moderate the relationship between distributed leadership and organizational support. The research verifies the effect of the moderated mediation. In addition, the interaction between supervisor-subordinate guanxi and values fit moderates the relationship between distributed leadership and organizational support. Theoretical annotation is provided for the various innovation behavior in the practice of innovation management of China, and enriches its theory.

Key words: proactive-reactive innovation behavior of the employee, distributed leadership, supervisor-subordinate guanxi, values fit, organizational support

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