A Social Resources Perspective of Employee Innovative Behavior and Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model

Employee innovation is becoming increasingly important when organizations strive for sustainable competitive advantage. Different from previous research on employee and relational/structural perspectives of social networks, the present study first attempt to empirically examine how resources per se influence innovation. Drawing social-resources theory, this proposes that boost innovation, which strengthened by supervisor support. By conducting a field survey 154 employees in high-tech company collecting archival data their innovative outputs, we found who can access mobilize more demonstrate behavior subsequently achieve better such as patents invention disclosures. Supervisor support amplifies resources’ effects outcomes. This contributes literature networks introducing new theoretical perspective. Practically, it also adds insights performance approach.