2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A psychological study of employees' innovative behavior in SMEs
| Project/Area Number |
26380854
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Asia University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
FURUKAWA Hisataka
KUROSE Naohiro
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 経営革新 / 中小企業 / プロアクティブ / 戦略的柔軟性 / イノベーティブ行動 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Innovation is the keyword for the growth and development of firms. This study aims to clarify the critical employees’ behavior for innovation and the individual and organizational factors that are related to the behavior.
Focusing on SMEs, we have investigated and found that transformational leadership, task autonomy, and strategic flexibility, in addition to proactive personality of individual employees are the critical factors that affect employees’ innovative behavior.
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| Free Research Field |
組織行動
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