Identifying high influencing factors on innovative behaviour : a meta-analysis

Abstract
Purpose – Economic competition intensifies due to technological advances, and innovations
and organisation survival. Organisations with innovative employees gain have an economic
competitive advantage. Numerous studies have investigated the antecedents of IB and
focused on individual-leader level factors (especially, psychological empowerment, creative
self-efficacy, transformative leadership) that influence innovative behaviour, but the current
conclusions are scattered and contradictory. Therefore, the aim of this study is to disentangle
confused findings regarding factors affecting innovative behaviour.
Design/methodology/approach– A total of 69 studies that match the properties, published
between 2010 and 2021 were retrieved and encoded to conduct a meta-analysis for examining
the relationship between identified influencing factors on innovative behaviour, and the
moderating effects of potential variables were investigated.
Findings- The results indicated that all proposed factors had significant positive relationships
with IB and a moderately to largely strong relationship, whereas the moderating effect of
measurement of IB variable was not significant. Thus, further research is required on
moderating factors.
Research limitations/implications– One of the limitations of this study is that the moderator
only available for three established conditions; therefore, there are cannot be an appropriate
moderator of the relationship between influencing factors and IWB. Thus, further research is
required on moderating factors.
Practical implications – This finding suggests that systematic differences in correlations
result from various employee perspectives, so organizations or managers can better
understand the strong factors that influence employees' innovative behaviour well-being.
Originality/value–The first study to examine highly influential factors and innovative
behaviour, and identify the moderator. The results are astounding.
Management Research Review
Keywords: creative self-efficacy, innovative behaviour, meta-analysis, psychological
empowerment, transformational leadership