Expatriate managers' personal financial insecurity indirectly thwarts team innovation: The role of state learning goal orientation

Abstract

This paper studies the downstream effect of expatriate managers' personal financial insecurity on team innovation. Building on resource allocation theory, we propose a moderated serial mediation model. Using four‐wave, multi‐source survey data from 99 R&D expatriate teams within large technology companies in emerging markets, we find that expatriate managers' personal financial insecurity is negatively related to team innovation first through a lower level of state learning goal orientation in the last month, and subsequently through a lower level of intellectual stimulation behavior. The negative effect of expatriate managers' personal financial insecurity on state learning goal orientation is weakened when professional identification is higher (vs. lower). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Crisis and Organizational Sustainability: Empirical Analysis of the Implication of Transformational Leadership on the Decision to Stay Mediated by the Commitment of the Democratic Party in Indonesia

“…Similarly, Judge and Piccolo (2004) conducted a meta-analysis and concluded that transformational leadership is positively correlated with follower commitment. More recent studies also support these findings; for example, Gumusluoglu and Ilsev (2009) and Ni et al (2024) demonstrated that transformational leadership is linked to increased commitment through enhanced organizational innovation. Based on the theoretical framework and empirical evidence, Hypothesis 1 can be stated as follows:…”