Key determinants of employees' innovative work behavior in knowledge intensive firms : a proposed framework

Nur Farhana Zaidi, Nur Afifah Yakub and Tengku Adil Tengku Izhar

Competitive firms are now focusing on innovation. Innovation is crucial for the process of identifying new opportunities and keeping the firm to be a few steps ahead of their competitors. Innovation of knowledge intensive firms is dependent to the knowledge workers and their innovative work behavior. Based on five main theories extracted from previous study, a new proposed framework has been developed consists of transformational leadership, continuance commitment, affective commitment, normative commitment, extrinsic reward and intrinsic reward as the independent variables and innovative work behavior as the dependent variable. This study is significant to knowledge management scholars, managers and policy makers.

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Year of publication:	Jul-Sep 2017
Authors:	Zaidi, Nur Farhana ; Yakub, Nur Afifah ; Izhar, Tengku Adil Tengku
Published in:	The international journal of management science and information technology : IJMSIT ; an official publication of the North American Institute of Science and Information Technology. - Toronto : NAISIT Publ., ISSN 1923-0273, ZDB-ID 2769259-0. - 2017, 25, p. 18-28
Subject:	innovative work behavior \| knowledge intensive firm \| transformational leadership \| commitment \| reward \| Arbeitsverhalten \| Work behaviour \| Wissensintensives Unternehmen \| Knowledge-intensive industry \| Innovation \| Innovationsmanagement \| Innovation management \| Führungsstil \| Leadership style \| Verhalten in Organisationen \| Organizational behaviour