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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1538584
This article is part of the Research Topic Creative Organization Development through Leadership View all 13 articles
Error Management Climate, Psychological Security and Employee Bootleg Innovation Behavior: The Moderating Role of Risk-taking Traits
Provisionally accepted- 1 Anhui Technical College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan, Anhui, China
- 2 Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
- 3 Krirk University, Bangkok, Thailand
Employee bootleg innovation behavior is the key to help enterprises get rid of the "innovator's dilemma" and achieve innovative development. This article constructed a model of the relationship between error management climate, psychological security, risk-taking traits and employees' bootleg Innovation behaviors based on social cognitive theory, and tested the model empirically. The results show that: error management climate has a significant positive influence on employees' bootleg innovation behavior; psychological security plays a mediating role between error management climate and bootleg innovation behavior; risk-taking traits play a moderating role in the relationship between psychological security and employees' bootleg innovation behavior. The results of the study help to positively guide employees' bootleg innovation behavior and help organizations to do a good job of managing employees' innovation behaviors, thus enhancing organizational innovation performance.
Keywords: Bootleg innovation behavior 1, error management climate 2, psychological security 3, risk-taking traits 4, creativity 5
Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Zhang, Zhang and Su. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jiafu Su, Krirk University, Bangkok, Thailand
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