TMT's decision-making on adoption of management innovation
Journal of Organizational Change Management
ISSN: 0953-4814
Article publication date: 14 June 2022
Issue publication date: 8 December 2022
Abstract
Purpose
External environment drives established enterprises to employ management innovation. Drawing on dual-process theories, this paper purports to investigate TMT's intuitive and rational decision-making styles as mediating roles between perceived environmental turbulences and management innovation, and explain how organizational slack play an critical moderating role.
Design/methodology/approach
SPSS 25 is used to test 120 established enterprises' top management team (TMT) samples in China, and the moderated mediation model is empirically tested by using hierarchical regression analysis and conditional process analysis.
Findings
Perceived environmental turbulences promotes management innovation. Organizational slack as contextual variable influences the relationship between technology turbulence and TMT's decision-making styles. Interestingly, only perceived technology turbulence indirectly affects management innovation through TMT's intuitive decision-making when moderated by organizational slack. However, the indirect effect from perceived market turbulence to management innovation through TMT's rational decision-making is not significant when moderated by organizational slack.
Originality/value
Based on management innovation's human agency perspective, TMT's decision-making styles have not been discussed in research on management innovation. This paper sheds light on TMT's decision-making styles as mediating role.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Editor Magala Slawomir, the Guest Editor Tsai Fu-Sheng, anonymous reviewers and Production Editor Karthik Sivakumar for their very constructive comments and suggestions throughout the review process. The authors also thank Dr Jian Li for his very helpful comments on the revised versions in this research.
Funding: This research is funded by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71673082) and the Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Evaluation Committee (Grant No. XSP20ZDI023).
Citation
Li, R., Zheng, L. and Yuan, L. (2022), "TMT's decision-making on adoption of management innovation", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 35 No. 7, pp. 1061-1088. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-10-2021-0311
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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