A Study of the Effects of Knowledge Characteristic, Self-Efficacy, and Industrial Environmental uncertainty on Innovation Capability

• Main Authors: Yu-Shan Hung, 洪玉珊
• Other Authors: Huei-Mei Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51301897138546330185

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 企業管理學系研究所 === 101 === Along with global marketing competition and shortened product life cycle, many firms attempt to engage in innovative activities in order to create new products for improving their competitive advantage. Firms’ successful innovative activities are intimately linked with employees’ innovation capability. Prior studies have showed that knowledge characteristic and self-efficacy have a great impact on employees’ innovation capability. However, few studies investigate that industrial environmental uncertainty may moderate the relation between self-efficacy and employees’ innovation capability in manufacturing industry. Industrial environmental uncertainty is a key influencing factor in the competitive environment, especially for manufacturing industry. Therefore, we address the research gap by investigating sales, process, and R&;D employees in manufacturing industry. Furthermore, we regard self-efficacy as mediator in the relationship between knowledge characteristic and employees’ innovation capability. Our results show that knowledge characteristic and self-efficacy has positive effect on employees’ innovation capability, and industrial environmental uncertainty positively moderates the relation between self-efficacy and employees’ innovation capability. Furthermore, knowledge characteristic has not significant impact on self-efficacy. These finding hold some important practical implications. For example, manager should pay more attention on employees’ knowledge characteristic, and inspire their self-confidence. Moreover, manager may reduce the impact of industrial environmental uncertainty on organization in order to promote employees’ innovation capability.