Innovation climate: A systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research

Abstract

Over the last two decades, we have witnessed growing empirical research on the concept of innovation climate at both the team and organizational levels. This article systematically reviews the literature surrounding the concept, focusing on its antecedents and outcomes, and empirical work where it has been treated as a moderator. Based on the review, we propose an agenda for future research that highlights the need to incorporate alternative theoretical perspectives to enhance our understanding of the innovation climate concept and its impact in driving team‐ and organizational‐level outcomes. In addition to theoretical future research strands, we also highlight opportunities for empirical advancement of the field. In particular, we highlight the need to examine the negative influence of innovation climate, adopt a more dynamic approach to examine how innovation climates develops over time, and explore the influence of cultural and institutional factors on the development of innovation climate. Practitioner Points Innovation is essential for organizations wishing to remain competitive and thrive in the highly competitive global marketplace. This study consolidates the insights from prior research linking leadership and team/demographic/workplace characteristics to both the team innovation climate and the organizational innovation climate. Understanding innovation climate provides practitioners with insight into the levers they may utilize to encourage innovation within the organization. In addition, the outcomes of innovation climate are synthesized in this paper which provides practitioners with insight into the expected benefits of focusing on developing a climate for innovation.

Innovative Climate, a Determinant of Competitiveness and Business Performance in Chinese Law Firms: The Role of Firm Size and Age

“…An innovative climate is a firm atmosphere that fosters and propagates creative mechanisms to achieve its goals. Research on firm climate focuses on the employees' perception of the work climate, which influences their attitudes and behaviors at work [10]. Climate has been viewed as a positive antecedent of creativity and learning [11,26].…”

“…Climate has been viewed as a positive antecedent of creativity and learning [11,26]. There are various definitions of innovative climate; however, we have adopted a definition that is consistently and frequently used by researchers, which considers innovative climate as the "shared perceptions at an individual, team and organizational level as to the extent to which individual, team, and organizational processes encourage and enable innovation" [10,27,28]. Thus, the innovative climate is a combination of autonomy, leadership support, flexibility, encouragement for creative ideas, employee welfare, resource provision, trust, cooperation, communication, security, clarity of goals, outward focus, performance feedback, and reward [28][29][30].…”

“…Trends reveal that innovative climate is one of the most critical factors for the firm's competitiveness and business performance [9]. Researchers have examined innovative organizational climate from different perspectives to find how it influences the firm's overall performance [10]. An innovative organizational climate is considered a determinant factor of employee creativity, knowledge creation, and sustainable business performance [11].…”

“…An innovative organizational climate is considered a determinant factor of employee creativity, knowledge creation, and sustainable business performance [11]. An innovative climate is an imperative antecedent of a firm's performance and other organizational phenomena [6,10].…”

Innovative Potential Of The Personnel In The Organization

“…Increasing the innovative potential of both an individual employee and the https://doi. org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.03.119 Corresponding Author: E. V. Kamneva Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 831 entire enterprise as a whole can be achieved through the formation, development and adjustment of such private components as the motivational and personal aspects of the innovative potential of personnel (Morrar, Arman, & Mousa, 2017;Newman, Round, Wang, & Mount, 2019).…”